Faithful Response to Healing

In the story of Jesus and the demon-possessed man in Mark 5:14-20, Jesus gives new life to that man. When the townspeople saw the result of Jesus’ healing – an entirely new man, almost unrecognizable because of his normality—they were afraid. They must have expected that this man would remain demon-possessed until the end of his days. But there he was, and the healing required changing how they did business in the village. The man was new, and the…