You Make the Choice

  [280 words] Bible study is great because it makes us set our minds on things we ought to consider.  Two Sundays ago in our adult class, we studied Jesus’ miracle in Mark chapter 5 when he healed the man possessed by many demons. Our teacher brought up the point that people were upset with Jesus because he healed the man, and gave the demons permission to go into the pigs. The swine subsequently ran off a cliff.  Later in the same chapter, there is the account of Jairus’ daughter who was healed as well as the woman who had an issue of blood for many years. The interesting thing I (and others noticed) was that while the people who lived in the Gerasenes wanted Jesus to leave, the people across the other side of the Sea of Galilee were happy Jesus was there (Mark 5:21).  The same thing happens…