Mark 5:14-20 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region. As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
Again, we have Jesus telling someone to go and tell. Again, He is telling him to go BACK to his own homeland, with family and friends, to tell them about it. Going often is staying where we are, because that is the place we are needed most. When Christ does something in our lives, we are not to hold it in, nor are we to hold out for the place we thing most will hear it. We are to tell those who need to here it most, and that is where He tells us it is. For this man who had been demon possessed, it was definitely before those who had witnessed his old life, and the dramatic change that tool place when Christ came into his life. They did not need explanation of details or using their imagination; they could see it firsthand. May we not look for the largest platform possible. Let us look where we are, and ask Him where else He may want us to "go and tell."
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