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It<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0‘s a strange story.\u00a0How very relevant even in today’s time.\u00a0Jesus arrives in the region of Gadara, and the first inhabitants of this region whom he meets after stepping ashore are two men tormented by an evil spirit.\u00a0Possessed.\u00a0No one can help them, and that’s why everyone prefers to avoid them by far.\u00a0But not Jesus.\u00a0Despite the fact that, according to the scribe’s record, Jesus did not say a word, the evil spirits immediately understood that Jesus was not indifferent to the fate of the two unfortunates whom they were tormenting.\u00a0Unlike their fellow tribesmen.\u00a0Jesus orders the evil spirits to come out from inside the two unfortunate people and allows them to enter, as they requested, into a herd of pigs that were grazing far away.\u00a0Two men are single.\u00a0The herd, into which the demons from the two possessed ones had just entered, ran to meet the waves of the raging lake.<\/span>

A<\/span><\/strong>s the evangelist Matthew states, she perished in the water.\u00a0The shepherds, who saw all this, fled in terror and fear to a nearby town and told the story of what they had witnessed a while ago.\u00a0We can well imagine what was going on in the city after this news.\u00a0However, the ending of this story explains a lot to us.\u00a0Instead of joy at the rescue of their two sons, brothers, maybe husbands and fathers, panic rose in the city.\u00a0Matthew does not mention the welcome of his fellow citizens, who were finally freed from the torment of possession by an evil spirit, but he mentions “the whole city” that went out to meet Jesus to ask him to leave.\u00a0The material damage they suffered from the drowning of a herd of pigs was probably more important to them than the spiritual gain of the freedom of God’s children, which was given to their two fellow citizens by the Son of God.<\/span>

A<\/span><\/strong>we are very similar to the inhabitants of this Gadar town.\u00a0We are willing to accept God only when he does not reach out to our “flock”.\u00a0If he does not demand anything from us, and after all, not the “sinking” of our sins and iniquities.\u00a0We choose the security of our imaginary pastured pigs in various forms of material success and exchange it for God’s blessing, which we renounce.\u00a0How often do we hear the complaint: Where was God when the unsuspecting victims were killed in a terrorist attack?\u00a0Where was he when a British judge sentenced the innocent little Alfi to death, or when an old Canadian woman, fearing for her life, had to get the words Don’t euthanize me tattooed on her shoulder before entering hospital treatment?<\/span>

Where<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0was God at this or that disaster?\u00a0He was where we wanted him.\u00a0He was beyond our city, country, continent, from where we expelled him.\u00a0Politely and politely, politically correct, in the language of diplomats and lawyers, we asked him to leave.\u00a0And we even insulted him vulgarly and threw him out in “artistic clothes”, as happened recently in the theater in Brno.\u00a0Just as he commanded the evil spirits to come out of the men they were afflicting, we asked him to come out of our civilization.\u00a0Perhaps it is not too late to come to your senses.\u00a0Hopefully humanity is not too far on its way to extinction and we will catch up with Jesus and invite him into our midst again.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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