“And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.” Luke 9:42 KJV
Bible Passage: Luke 9:37-42 KJV
“And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him”, the BSB phrased it this way “…the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion…”. Knowing how violent the particular demon had been and the kind of wounds demons can inflict, I can imagine that in the likeliest hood, the boy got some fresh wounds that day from the demon slamming him down and tearing him as they brought him to Jesus.
It may therefore be that in addition to any past wounds or scars he had sustained from the demon’s past violent episodes, he would also sustain new ones during the course of his deliverance. After he was delivered, for days perhaps for months, he was still nursing wounds that he incurred during the process of deliverance alongside the ones he had when he was fully demonized.
These were fresh wounds. However, these wounds are of a different kind, although they are wounds from a demon, they also double as wounds of deliverance. For a while may be a long while, after his deliverance he would be bandaged but unbound, wounded but a winner, dented but delivered, scarred but saved, sore but not sorrowed.
Sometimes the process of deliverance, the process of separation, might be a painful one, that leaves one with fresh sores. It may even be sores or sorrows of regrets of why one ever got oneself caught in that predicament in the first place. It may be that you are walking away from loved ones, precious memories that you would rather hold on to, even if that relationship is over. It may even involve a non- congenial adversarial party that wants to make sure the process of separation hurts as much as possible, like the demon here. Or, like Pharaoh who said the Israelites should no longer be given straws to build bricks because Moses declared ‘let my people go!’ Whatever it may be, even if painful, please don’t stop the process, complete it no matter what it takes, in the long run the wounds will be worth it.
“When you win, nothing hurts” says Joe Namath
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