Have you ever been in a situation, maybe like a school classroom or a town meeting where somebody gets up and does something or says something that seems a little off and you get that feeling like “Who IS this guy?” Well, had everybody seen what Jesus did in this snapshot…He would have been that guy.
31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” 35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 36 And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. 37 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
The Primary Point:
Jesus is God and He is bringing with Him the Good News of the Kingdom of God made manifest by His healing the sick.
Our response:
We should love, honor and worship Him as God, bringing Him all of our sicknesses(our sin most of all!) and we should be at work to try follow His example in His power to see healing brought to the world in a similar way.
The questions the emerge:
Are we in a relationship with this Jesus who has the power to heal the sick? Have we brought Jesus our sin, turned from it and trusted in Him alone to heal our souls? Not our religion. Not our good works. But Jesus alone. For help with this, send us an email at
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Are we in the habit of bring Jesus our other infirmities (health, emotional, relational, etc.)
Jesus can heal. Are we in the pattern of asking Him to do it in our lives?
A Secondary Point:
Jesus can work with some strange colors to paint a beautiful masterpiece.
Did you notice what He did to make this man well? He spit on his tongue. Yuck! But even spit in the hands of the Master is enough to work a miracle.
The question that emerges:
Do we know that Jesus still works in the same way today?
That nothing is too hard for Him and nothing (and no one) is beyond His usability. This should be a great hope to all of us with a checkered past, feelings of inadequacy,, cognizance of our own sin. Jesus is above and beyond it all and is more than able to work with what we have. Which makes the question…
Are we letting Him?
