BBD 04.20.10 In Your Right Mind (Classic 2001)
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(A Devotional Classic from 2001)
04.20.10
In Your Right Mind
Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and
had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were
afraid. - Mark 5:15.
In Quetta, Pakistan Ghulam Raza likes to smoke scorpions when they are in
season. He takes the scorpion stingers and dries them in the sun and then
grinds them into a powder. He then smokes this powder. Ghulam claims that
when he smokes scorpion that heroin is "nothing to me." Ghulam and his
friends find the scorpions in the Quetta cemetery. Sometimes when they are
hunting scorpions high on heroin or scorpion powder they may fall into one
of the open graves. Ghulam was a mechanical engineer, but years ago became
an addict through the use of painkillers during recovery after being shot 18
times.
One thing is obvious about Ghulam Raza and the obvious thing is that he is
not in his "right mind." If Ghulam were in his "right mind" he would not be
hunting scorpions in the Quetta cemetery. Most likely, he would instead be
employed as a mechanical engineer contributing to society. If he was in his
"right mind" his home would not be a cemetery, but a nice house in which he
would live with his family. If Ghulam were in his "right mind" his thoughts
would not be of how many scorpions he could catch, but instead he would have
thoughts perhaps of his family, his work, and of God.
Are you in your right mind? What are your goals, ambitions, dreams, and
thoughts about? Your mind may not be in the sad condition of Ghulam Raza,
but is your mind where it should be? The Gadara Demoniac knew that the only
way to have a right mind was to have Jesus in his life. There is still One
today who can give even Ghulam Raza a right mind, and that One is Jesus.
What about you? Allow Jesus to renew a right mind in you (Romans 12:2).
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