Yesterday I spoke of being comfortable and normal, and how those feeling can be demons that God wants us to shed.
The stories of Jesus include several tales about him ridding someone of demons. The irony being that the person healed is usually grateful, but his neighbors aren’t so grateful, usually running Jesus out of town.
Times haven’t changed that much, for the demons of that day and now are those parts of us that live with the way things are — including systems of injustice, oppression of large segments of our society, and obsession with the material.
Lent is a time when we go through a self-examination, confront our personal demons, and become open to change — a change to a demon free life. God asks us to confront the “normal” — contentment with the everyday, untransformed, inert existence.
We find God and who he wants us to be outside of our comfortable normal existence.
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