146 ¥ESUS MASTER OF DEVILS.

 

besought him to heal his son. Jesus said, “Bring him
hither to me.” And Jesus rebuked the devil, and he
departed out of him, and the child was cured from that
very hour. What joy and gratitude must have filled that
father’s heart, when he saw his boy was well.

How happy, too, the boy must have been when he
found he was no longer under the power of this evil
spirit. a
Now he could walk,and talk, and eat, like other boys
He must have felt very thankful to Jesus for his wonder-
ful deliverance. Jesus, you see, is stronger than all the
devils. : .

Have you never read in the Bible about the man
among the tombs, possessed with evil spirits? No man
could tame him, neither could they bind him with chains.
He was a terror to all the people who lived in that place. |
They could hear his wild cries at midnight, so that people
dared not pass that way, lest he might come upon them
and destroy them. Jesus, while journeying one day, came
near the place where the wild man lived, and when he saw
him, he commanded the devils to depart out of him ; and
we read that the man was found sitting at the feet of
Jesus. clothed, and in his right mind.

We see that Jesus was the Mighty One, or he could
never have made the devils flee before him. He is the
same mighty Jesus now, and if we come to him he will
cast out all the naughty spirits from our hearts.