In our spiritual life fear of the supernatural can cause us to reject the only One who can save us. Our testimony to His mercy and grace may be able to calm someone’s fear and give hope to those who hear it. In physical life fear can stop us from using the gifts and talents given to us by God because we may fail. How sad for us and for those who could benefit from our testimony and our talents. It is our role to go out and tell the world what God has done for us in Christ Jesus!
The man’s position at Jesus’ feet paints a picture of true discipleship. The man who was formerly demon-possessed wanted to go with Jesus and His disciples, but Jesus commissioned the man to be a witness in his own community. Though Jesus wanted the Father to receive the credit for the man’s healing, the man could not separate what God did from the role Jesus had played.
Luke 8:34-40
34 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. 35 Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. 36 They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed. 37 Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned.
38 Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
40 So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him.
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