MEDITATION OF THE DAY(Luke 11:14-23)
THEME: WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHRIST JESUS

In today’s Gospel reading Jesus performs a healing miracle which gains him opposition rather then adulation. In restoring the gift of speech to a mute man He discovers that “demons” which control a person’s extremities are far easier to exorcise then the demons that lodge themselves in the depths of the human heart.
We have the arrogant human nature to analyze and apply everything to a science or understanding, rather than just believe and have faith in God.

The people who witness the healing miracle accuse Jesus of healing in the name of Beelzebul. But Jesus can see that it is really they who are possessed by cynicism and doubt and he proceeds to confront them with their own irrational arguments.. They are caught in their own desperate situations and cannot allow themselves to trust that Jesus is from God. Their discomfort in the presence of Jesus reminds us that there is  a bit of the “beast” in us all.
There are also those of us, that want God to prove Himself to us, by way of some outrageous sign, rather than having faith and trust.

PRAYER:Lord,grant me your Holy Spirit that I may discern what will lead me to you and what leads me away from you.