Day 1: Surrounded by Dead Things

Scripture

So they arrived at the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus climbed out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit came out from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the burial caves and could no longer be restrained, even with a chain. Whenever he was put into chains and shackles — as he often was — he snapped the chains from his wrists and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Day and night he wandered among the burial caves and in the hills, howling and cutting himself with sharp stones. — Mark 5:1-5 (NLT)

Mark 5:1-5

Have you ever bought something you instantly regretted, and now it just sits there collecting dust mocking you? Sin is like that — we replay what we said or did, and others around us see it too. This man is surrounded by dead things day and night: demons inside, tombs outside, chains on his wrists, cuts on his body, and no one in the city wanting to be around him. He is everyone's problem except Jesus. Today, name honestly what you have been replaying. You do not have to clean yourself up before Jesus will meet you — He steps off the boat and walks straight toward what is destroying you.

Prayer

Jesus, I am tired of replaying my regret. Meet me in the tombs I have been living in and confront what is destroying me.

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