Get out!

"In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, 'What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!'
Jesus rebuked him and said, 'Quiet! Come out of him!' " - Mark 1:23-25

Looking back on this, we can tell the spirit is unclean - it asks Jesus if he's here to destroy them, and then goes on to identify him as the "Holy One of God". Only an unclean spirit - that is, an evil spirit - would equate the "Holy One of God" with destruction. But in this case, the evil spirit is not referring to the others in the synagogue as "us", but rather, all evil spirits. And rightfully so - this won't be the last spirit Jesus commands to be gone - and I'm sure, if he had his way, he'd want to have all of "them" destroyed!

While we no longer see unclean or evil spirits in our everyday life, each of us have our demons - the things that bug us, that haunt us, that weigh us down each day. They may not scream out in the middle of church, but they do have a way of diminishing our happiness, or kicking us when we're down. And while Jesus isn't physically here to command those away, a simple prayer is all it takes to have those voices silenced, commanded out of us through the awesome power of God.

It just takes a little faith.