What Have You To Do With Me?

‘What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?’

                                                                     (Luke 8: 26-39)

I have preached on this story many times over the years.  But this morning this line caught my imagination as never before.

That is what I love about riding scripture; every time you read it something new is somehow perceived.

Jesus is opposite Galilee. You could say he is in a foreign country.  A non-Jewish area; and I would guess that the people there did not know of Jesus or who he truly was. 

A complete stranger communicating with another complete stranger — supposedly.  Except, the one calling out to Jesus actually knew who Jesus was —  “.. Son of the Most High God?”     

The demon, speaking out of the mouth of the man, was asking an extremely pointed question of the Son of the Most High  "What have you to do with me?"   

Now we are not told if Jesus had spoken to this man before this moment.   All we know is that as Jesus steps into the country, of the Gerasenes, the man calls out to him.  Nothing more is added. 

There are all kinds of exegesis, I could relate to you, about this story; but it would make this blog much longer.  What I really want to focus on is the question. 

The question is for us to reflect on.

What does the Son of the Most High have to do with you and me thousands of year after the question was asked -- by many demons living in the mans body?

We might want to wonder about the demons in our lives.  Demons that want to remain in us; and ones that want to escape our insides.

Maybe we wonder where, or even why, demons reside in our minds or bodies.

Or who demons are.

     Or if they are calling out to Jesus.

      Or if demons are actually real beings.

Or, maybe just the wonder if Jesus care about the demons that haunt us.

Just another one of my wonders for you to think about.