Mark 5:19 “Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.”
Every “born again” (John 3:1-8) Child of God has “great things” to tell their family and “friends”. When “Legion” went “home” to his family and “friends”, surely his very presence there and his godly demeaner were a testimony of “how great things the Lord” had done for him. He must have told a lot of “friends”, for when the Lord returned to that area, “five thousand men”, not counting women and children, (Mark 6:44) came out to see and hear Him. So, what “great things” do we have to tell that “the Lord hath done for” us? We can start with, “when” I was “yet without strength … Christ died for” me (Romans 5:7) and “God commendeth his love toward” me, “in that, while” I was yet a sinner “Christ died for” me (Romans 5:8) and because He has “justified” me by shedding His “blood” for me, he has “saved me from” God’s “wrath” against sin and when I was His enemy, He “reconciled” me “to God” by His “death” and I am “saved by his life” (Romans 5:10) and I “also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom” I “have now received the atonement” (Romans 5:11). Furthermore, Paul tells us that there are magnificent “things” that my Lord has done for me that “work together for” my “good” (Romans 8:28); our God has chosen to “foreknow” me in a loving way and He “did predestinate” me “to be conformed to the image of his Son” and “he also called” me to Spiritual Life and “he also justified” me by the death of His Son and He “also glorified” me (Romans 8:29-30)! Because these blessed “things” are true; it is impossible for me to be eternally condemned, for my Lord has justified me (Romans 8:33-34) and there is nothing that can “separate” me “from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:35-39. And, this is only the beginning of the “great things” our Lord has done for us. Let’s tell it!