Is The Devil Real?

        

        Most of the population of the world today perhaps may no longer believe in the existence of the devil or the demon roaming around among the living. Though ancient literatures documented the works of the devil, modern science may seem not convince of their existence. For science people, the devils and the demons just belong to one of the ancient stories that survived through history because it was appealing enough to drive fear among people so that they may avoid what is bad, evil or wrong.

        Though there are cults that propagate beliefs to Satan, such belief is not so appealing to the new age people. Such cult group is popular only because it arouses curiosity to people. Mostly nowadays Satan and his minions are just myth of the past and they are just figure used in the past and the present to induce fear so that people will subject themselves to authority.

        But the world-renowned author and psychiatrist M. Scott Speck attested to the existence of these entities when he narrated his experiences on how he encountered the devil in his practice of psychiatry. In his book A glimpse of the Devil, Scott Speck shared his battle of the devil by exorcising demons out of the body of the possessed person.

        When a person's condition did not fit any description and specification of psychiatric disorder, he suspected that something else was going on. He thought the possibility that the person he was dealing with and trying to treat from psychiatric order was not really suffering from any disorder at all but the person was possessed by another entity, probably a demon or the devil.

        Scott shared two exorcism accounts in his book. He suspected that the conditions of his two clients were that of a possession of the devil. In his assessments, since he is a medical doctor, the drugs he recommended did not seem to be taking effect on them fully. Their behaviors were odd and seemed not to fit to any psychiatric specification.

        Scott wondered how the demons were able to enter their bodies. They must have seen portals into the body in order for them to be able to enter. As Scott continued his therapy and monitoring to his patient, he discovered the dark secrets of the past hidden in lives of his clients. The shadows that gave the demons an opportunities to enter and take possessions of their bodies. In their loneliness, it was in the shadow that they found comfort and stability.

        Although the exorcisms done in the book were not successful, Scott opened the possibility that the devil is really real and is around us all waiting for the opportunity to enter into ones body. The perfect timing is when we are in our weakness point. While the iron is hot the devil strikes.