At the end of Matthew 8 after Jesus has cast the demons into the herd of pigs, I find it interesting that the towns people come out and ask Him to leave.
Reading it now, we tend to think, how could they not have known that this was at the least someone special. Even the demons called Him the Son of God. How could they not have heard that and bowed down before Him?
But if you really think about it, we would do the same thing today most likely.
If a strange man and his posse washed up on the shore of your town and the first they do is slaughter a whole herd of pigs by supposedly casting some demons out of the unruly people who live on the edge of town.
I’m pretty sure we would either kick him out or kill him or arrest him.
It’s interesting that our human nature is to not trust the things that we don’t understand.
It keeps us safe.
But it also keeps us from finding new and possibly great things.
How many times have we rejected something, that could have been from God, just based on the fact that we didn’t understand it?
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