Matthew 8.34 records they begged Him to go away and leave them alone.

When Jesus comes He messes with our lives, at least He is supposes to have that effect upon His people.

Jesus healed a couple of men possessed by many demons. The demons were sent from the men into a herd of pigs that subsequently stampeded over a cliff to their deaths. PETA would not have been a fan of God on that day.

The people too living in that area became very uncomfortable with both the power and the cost of God being in their midst and so they asked Him to leave their town.

The problem with God is we cannot control Him.

What we like about religion is that we can control it and if we do it right, we can control the people following it as well.

God however cannot and will not be controlled by people.

There are many religious people but there are not many who follow Jesus. There are many who claim to be in the Christian club but not many who have taken their cross and follow Jesus as fishers of men.

When God enters a person’s life He takes control for there is much work to be done. God works within a person to transform them from the inside out into the image of Jesus. God works through a person to bring His kingdom to earth as it is in heaven.

The Jesus person looks much different from the average person or even the average Christian just as Jesus looked much different from the average person or the average Jew of His day. Jesus was not caught-up in either the fads of the day or the religious hype of His time.

Jesus was fixated on loving God and loving those He created even to the point of sacrificing His own life.

The disciple of Jesus passionately and radically loves God and loves people at personal risk and sacrifice.