Proper 18 Mark 7:31-37

"He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak"

"He has done everything well."

Who can do better than God? For it is God who has made the crated order, who has created what is considered good, for what is good, who is the only one who can do well. And why does God, Jesus, do so well? Is it not that He is that powerful to do so? That He is God?

Do you ever consider how powerful God is?

There is this man who can not hear and can not speak. We do not know for how long. But Jesus only needs to touch the ears and mouth and pray "be opened" for something to happen. Scripture tells us that Jesus took a long sigh before praying. This was not a sigh before praying. This was not a sigh of "oh, man, another person who wants to be healed. It's never ending...". This sigh was a settling of HIs person to be in tune with God. Now Jesus is God, but was human as well and needed to tune His human side to what was happening in His God side. We could take a lesson from this when we pray, perhaps it would be good to take a sigh to clear our mind that we may focus and be in tune with God. Notice also that Jesus' prayer was short. Being in tune with God only requires the words needed to be prayed, "be opened".
This man was healed and was excited, he kept on telling people about it, dispite Jesus asking him not to. God is powerful and can and does heal our physical ailments. This is a revelation to us. What an awesome thing to realize expecially when it happens to you. It was prophesied that when the Lord comes the blind will see, the deaf would hear, the lame walk, the mute would speak. We could say this is a spiritual thing, but it is a physical thing. The Bible says so. Why should we believe God is not able to do so? This happens to be God after all. Would God not want good for those who are in His Kingdom? So God is powerful and He heals the physical and spiritual sicknesses we have. And not only does God heal but does it well.