"He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out."
Luke 11:23-24
The part about the unclean spirit is also in Matthew (12:43-45), which has a slightly different wording, and perhaps a slightly different lesson at the end, whereas what looks like this lesson in Luke comes before. ... I think the lesson here is that we have to stick with God and keep walking his path, every day. It can't just be a one time conversion (or exorcism), because if we don't keep it up, we'll fall back to our old ways, which will get us into the same hole that we were in before.
Today, let's make suer that we are with the Lord. Let's gather to him, and stay close, so that we can fall under his protection at all times. Protected even from the evil that we have invited in and embraced in the past. Sin is much like alcoholism... it hovers there on the periphery, and if we aren't careful, we can let it in again.
The cure is always God, who can help us feel safe and a million miles away from temptation. ... Let's work on staying there, in that safety, keeping the Spirit with us, so that we don't find ourselves in a worse situation than we started with (verse 26).
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