Today's readings are here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/013012.cfm
"Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you."
I would think if we were possessed by an evil spirit, we would not find it to be too much fun. In fact, we would hate it and would want to be delivered from it. We would not see the demon as our friend.
We tend to be "possessed" by some of the following "demons": pride, judgmental spirit, impatience, lust, greed, envy, and hate. Yet, we find them to be fun. We do not hate them, and maybe we do not want to be delivered from them. We see these "demons" as our friends. Why is this? Because they bring us a certain degree of pleasure and happiness. The pleasure is short-lived though, as it only lasts while we are engaged in the sinful behavior. Once the deed is done, we are left with feelings of guilt and emptiness. These negative consequences should clue us in that sin is not our friend.
You know what we need? We need our Lord to open our eyes to the fact that sin is just as bad for us as an evil spirit would be if it possessed us. We really need to see sin for what it is and what it does to us, so that we will hate it like we would hate being possessed by the devil. Plus, until we get a truthful perspective on sin, we will miss out on the power of gratitude in our lives; for why should we go to our family and friends and "announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for us" if he has merely "delivered" us from something that is a friend?
May Christ have pity on us by opening our eyes to the fact that he is our friend and that all things that oppose him are not our friend.
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