Now, here he sits in a stable frame of mind, serene, listening to the Lord. “Amazing!” the people of the neighborhood say. That is, until they realize that this miracle in his life has cost them their pigs!

It’s sad to think that folk's values can be so earthly.

You see the demons that left the man went into the pigs, causing the pigs to run into the water and drown. And then these same people turned on Jesus and asked him to leave the country — it’s just too much change too fast!

They valued their sausage more than their souls. It’s sad to think that folk's values can be so earthly. Sausage over souls?

A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, but they were frightened when they saw the man who had been demon possessed, for he was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly sane. Those who had seen what happened to the man and to the pigs told everyone about it, and the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone. (Mark 5:15-17 NLT 1st Ed.)

Walking with God by John Eldredge Giving you an example of what intimacy with God can look like, Eldredge asserts that everyone can have conversational intimacy with Christ.

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