Back to John the Baptist

Last night during my Bible Study, "Jesus, the One and Only" by Beth Moore, Beth made a very good point. As I read it I thought back to John the Baptist who I had wrote about sometime last week. This is just a thought, but not necessarily why God chose John the Baptist to prepare His way. Once again, God's ways are not our ways and I can not even begin to fully understand His reasoning. (Is there really reasoning when you are the one in charge and you know exactly what you are doing?)

Luke 8:26-35

"Then they (Jesus and His disciples) sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, 'What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!' For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.

Jesus asked him, saying, 'What is your name?'

And he said, 'Legion,' because many demons had entered him. And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.

Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. So they begged Him that He would permit them to enter them. And He permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned.

When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid"

In her study Beth Moore states, "The villagers came out of the woodwork only to find the talk of the region sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind -- an important testimonial for all who think Christians are basically lunatics. Satan is the one who hopes to breed lunacy."

How does this apply to my study on John the Baptist? After reading this study, it has made to rethink about John being chosen. God is anything but a lunatic and here I pictured God using a lunatic. God heals lunatics and makes them into sane people. God takes the insaneness within each one of us, heals it, and uses it as a testimony for His glory. WE SERVE A GREAT AND AWESOME GOD!