I was reading in the Bible the other day in Luke 9 about that phenomenal miracle of the madman at Gerasene. This man was bound by demons for so many years, scaring people, living in graveyards, tormented. But he was set free by Jesus Christ.
Now, here he sits in a stable frame of mind, serene, listening to the Lord. “Amazing!” the people of the neighborhood say. That is, until they realize that this miracle in his life has cost them their pigs!
You see the demons that left the man went into the pigs, causing the pigs to run into the water and drown. And then these same people turned on Jesus and said to him to leave the country — it’s just too much change too fast!
They valued their sausage more than their souls. It’s sad to think that folks values can be so earthly. Sausage over souls?
