Evening: Psalms 91, 92; Luke 4:31-37
After experiencing rejection in Nazareth, Jesus goes to Capernaum, 40 kilometres away on the Sea of Galilee. There is a man that Luke says has “the spirit of an unclean demon”, which is how mental illness is explained back then. Mental illness really is like being possessed by forces beyond your control. Jesus addresses this ‘demon’, which leaves the man without harming him. Not shrinking from mental illness, nor denying it, Jesus’s particular ‘talk therapy’ is effective in healing it. Jesus’s healing power is wholistic, touching our whole human personhood - Body, Mind and Spirit.
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