Read: Mark 1:21-28
Meditation: “Seeing Is Not Always Believing”
There was a time in my life when I thought that if I could just “present Jesus” well enough, something would click in the audience, and people would flock to him. I assumed that what seemed so right to me would seem so to anyone else who had a good chance to consider “the facts.”
But now, years later, I know this is not true. The cliché “seeing is believing” is not always true. Today’s Gospel lesson speaks to this.
The evil spirit in the man recognized who Jesus was: “the Holy One of God” (v. 24). But that knowledge did not cause the demon to become a believer in or follower of Christ.
In the second century Irenaeus commented on this same idea, reminding the early Christians that recognition of who Jesus is and submission to him are two different things.
We still have a “Gallop Poll God” in North America, but we also are seeing a marked rise in those who claim to have “no religion.”
For anyone, including ourselves, the defining factor is not acknowledgment; it is alignment.
Oboedire 
Amen on alignment! “This Jesus God has made both Lord and Christ!” “God now commands people everywhere to repent!”