Hebrews 2:5-12 / Mark 1:21-28
God made this world beautiful, and He created man as the most beautiful creature of all creation because man was created in God’s image.
And so when the devil wanted to tarnish and destroy God’s beautiful creation, the devil targeted man.
When man fell into the devil’s temptation, sin entered the world and into all creation.
And we see the destructive effects of sin in its many forms.
In the gospel, the evil spirit that possessed the man was an angry spirit who was shouting at Jesus and challenging Him.
That was just one of the many manifestations of evil in the world, and at times we feel that evil rules the world and holds many persons to be its followers and supporters.
Jesus came to break the power of evil and to establish the kingdom of God on earth.
Let us continue our fight against evil but refusing to give in to sin and to be united in Jesus in the mission of salvation.