BBD 05.24.21 In Your Right Mind (Classic)
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Classic from 2001
The Burning Bush Devotional
24 May 2021
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. “And do not be
conformed to this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you
may
prove what
is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
God (Romans 12:2).”
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