Contemplative Bible Reading

Mark 9:25 (New International Version 2011)

When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

Jesus casts a demon or impure spirit out of a person. Note the instruction that Jesus gave to the spirit: never enter him again.

Never is a long time. Something that is never holds for all eternity. That is real power, the power to declare something for all eternity. Our God is without end, yet He loves me and came here to die for me. There are days when I can fathom just a tiny bit of that. Those are amazing days.