This week is challenging me to think about spiritual beings.

We readily accept Jesus Christ as our King and the fact that He cast out demons. Yet, when we see some one who may or may not be possessed we say they’ve gone crazy, no second thought, they’re just crazy.

What’s been challenging to me is a friend of mine seems to have lost their mind and was even committed to a psych ward. My first thought was something had taken them over, but when questioned about it I said I am not a judge of all those things that I am not an authority of, only Jesus is.

Yet, the thought keeps haunting me that something is wrong; the person doesn’t need to be in a ward, but freed from the oppressor. It troubles me to think that if I willingly accept Christ as my Lord why do I not have the boldness to say that someone could be possessed? In this country we so readily push things we don’t understand to the side, label it with some off the wall name, give it a drug till its in a stupor and then go on. We mask the problem, we don’t heal it. We take from the Glory of God when we so readily think that a demon is merely a schizophrenic person and put them in a institution and write them off as a by-product of society.

What we are really doing is saying, “God, You don’t exist because we don’t want that demon to be real.” We are so scared that if we truly admit that demons are real then it takes away every scientific explanation our puny human minds have come up with to explain things, even down to the common cold.

Stand upon the truth, they are very real, very, very, very real and He who is, was and is to come has all authority over them. Just as He has authority over you and me in our feeble existence.

Maybe He is leaning on me to stand up and look at things from a different perspective right now, so I will say this; not all things are as they appear. Not every orange is sweet, some are very sour. Same with a grape, it can be sweet or sour. The only difference is, an orange is a orange and a grape is a grape. A person is a person and a demon is a demon.

We don’t understand, or at least I don’t understand, everything that takes place around us. Throughout the day, are there things going on right beside me that I don’t see? Well, probably. The good thing is my shield, that is, my faith in Jesus, protects me from that. What about those who don’t have that same shield?

Demons are real, possession is real. May we all have discernment in this country to see the difference. Some things can be treated with a pharmaceutical drug, others need a deeper healing; a healing of the soul. Only Jesus can cleanse a wound that deep and bring the healing that is needed. Only He has the authority to do such a bold thing. The key is, He is within us and works through us to the Glory of God.

I hope and pray that some of what I just said makes sense to me in a few days. Not all things will be clear to us all, but may the grace of God open our eyes to see what is true .