Jesus and the Storms

Right after Jesus removed the storm from the Sea of Galilee, He removed a storm from a man’s head. The infamous Legion was stuffed with demons, suffering among the tombs, dangerously insane, and thoroughly pitiful. This man carried a constant tempest between his ears, but Jesus shut this down as well.

His encounter with Jesus transformed him inside and out. The man had lived for a long time without clothing, an appropriate reminder of the shame of Eden. When Jesus rescued him, he was clothed. The man had lived a long time without sanity. When Jesus rescued him, he was “in his right mind” (Mark 5:15). What had once made this man miserable was appropriately rehoused in pigs, who put up with the arrangement for about two minutes.

Without Jesus, we live among the tombs. We are surrounded by death without hope. The shame of our sins remains with us and we go through our days spiritually unclothed. Maybe most horrible of all, without Jesus our perception is distorted into a sort of spiritual insanity, in which we are unable to interact with reality in a mentally healthy way.

Jesus does for us what he did for the madman in the graveyard. He solves death. We don’t have to live in constant fear of it. When we are baptized, we are clothed with Christ. We don’t carry the shame of Eden anymore. Best of all, becoming a Christian gives us an accurate perception of reality so that we can live life as it was designed to be lived by the Creator.

Jesus removed the storm from the madman’s head. Jesus does the same for us.

- Bret