God is powerful

January 11, 2022 Tuesday of the First week in Ordinary Time Mark 1:21-28 Our gospel speaks of three important reality. First, evil spirit exists. They are real. Devil is at work and its around us. Their job is to destroy us, to discourage us, to make our life miserable and seduce us not to believe and worship the true God. Every Tuesday night during my priestly duty to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (night prayers) the reading from 1 Peter 5:8-9a is reminding me to: “Stay sober and alert because our opponent the devil is prowling like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. “ Friends, evil spirits exist but do not be scared! They will only scare us but cannot defeat us because we are God’s children. Second, noise is the laguage of the devil. The devil loves to shout. They like to scream and to yell. Today the gospel is teaching us to appreciate the importance of silence. Friends, stop yelling. Raise your words but not your voice. Dont raise your voice just improve your argument. Speak quietly so that everybody can hear your message. If everyone is yelling no one can be heard. Raising our voice will never make things better. Friends, shouting is the language of the devil. Shouting and yelling silences our message. Let us speak quitely so that other people can hear our words instead of our voice. Stop yelling and avoid swearing please. Third, the devil knows God. “I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” They knew God but they dont obey and follow Him. Friends, knowing God is far different from obeying Him. Most of us had the evil in us because we are only good in the knowing level but failed on the doing stage. The greatest gap in the world is the gap between knowing and doing. Friends, doing is far better than knowing! Conclusion: Yes evil spirit exist but God is more powerful than them. God is stronger than them. As a matter of fact our gospel present to us how terrified the evil spirits are with Jesus. Friends, there are always an influences of evil in us but do not to be afraid because God is more powerful than them. God is here to drive them away. No evil can destroy the Son of God. Combat evil with good. Lord keep me safe from the hands of the wicked; protect me from the violent, who devise ways to trip my feet. Blessings Fr. Jhack