Jesus heals Peter’s mother-in-law, she gets up and serves Him, then the crowds come, including the sick and the demon-possessed.

Matthew tells us, “He drove out the spirits with a word” (Matt 8:16, NKJV)

Can we stop right there?!

Jesus drove out demonic spirits with a word! Only a word!

Later, Matthew will describe how even the winds and the waves obeyed Him (Matt 8:23-28).

Can you imagine?

Oh friend, might our hearts ask as those surrounding Him did that day, “What kind of man is this?” (Matt 8:27)

What kind of man IS this?

Oh, might our hearts stand in awe!

May we reverentially fear this King of Kings.

I can’t help but remember, being a little girl, and hearing my mom read me the words of C.S. Lewis as he described God through a lion called Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia—

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion”…”Safe?” said Mr Beaver …”Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”

‘Course he isn’t safe.
But he’s good.
He’s the King, I tell you.

And that’s exactly the kind of God I want to know, and follow, and worship!

I can’t explain Him, predict Him or control Him. He is so powerful that a mere word from His holy lips set the galaxies in motion. There is nothing we have going on that is too hard for Him! Nothing can ever pluck us from His Hand!

He is more than capable of completing the good work He has started in us AND those we love. (Do you hear me, moms and grandmas? He is more than capable for that loved one we are worried about.)

Let’s keep reminding each other of this! Because our flesh forgets.
Our hearts get weary.

Oh, but when we daily go to the Word, when we remember “with just a word”, we know there is no God like Jehovah! The Lion of Judah! The Great I Am!

And we find peace!

What a Savior!

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