Let me introduce you to a man.
He was crazy. No, it wasn't that he was a lot of fun. Or that everyone thought he was crazy. He was insane.
No one could control him. He was so strong that the strongest restraints could not hold him. He would just break them to pieces.
He lived in the cemetery. That's creepy.
He was a cutter. All day long. Every day.
He screamed. He moaned. He wailed. Night and day.
From the cemetery. Imagine a funeral procession. A widow coming to her former husband's grave.
And the crazy man is screaming and wailing just a few feet away.
Wild hair.
Oh, and he was naked, too.
What would you do? What could you do?
All sorts of methods have been used. For years.
Everyone had given up on him. No one was even trying to help him anymore.
It looked hopeless.
But then Jesus came.
Jesus came and cast out the evil spirits that had controlled this man for a very long time.
Imagine what people saw then.
The man was sitting. That was something completely different than what they had ever seen him do. He was at rest.
The man was clothed. They had never seen him like that.
The man was in his right mind. No more screaming. No more wild look in his eyes. No more sharp rocks in his hands. Maybe even a smile across his face.
This man who had been controlled by demons for a very long time was changed in an instant.
Because Jesus came.
His life was a mess. It couldn't have gotten much worse. It had been that way for a very, very long time.
But then Jesus came.
Your problems may seem as bad as this man's. Or maybe not. Maybe you've been struggling with a problem for a very long time. It seems to have control over you. You see no hope. All you see is that it has control and you're just living day to day.
But then Jesus will come.
Just like this man, Jesus can solve your problems. Only Jesus can.
You've tried everything else already, right?
Let Jesus take care of your problems.
He can do it.
I know.
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