Mark 1:23-26
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.

Each of us is no doubt plagued with an “unclean spirit” of some sort. As St. Paul wrote in Romans 7:15, “What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.” We struggle with a “thorn in our sides” so to speak that we just can’t seem to get rid of. Only through Jesus can we find relief and comfort. Jesus does not criticize or scold the man afflicted by the unclean spirit. But He gladly restores him to wholeness. God will surely use whatever affliction we have…to bring us to completion in ways that are beyond us. In the Catholic Easter Vigil sin is called a “happy fault.” It is the place where we can’t save ourselves…only God can! Bring your affliction to Jesus without fear!

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Have a blessed day!