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30 Days of Miraclesਨਮੂਨਾ

30 Days of Miracles

DAY 23 OF 30

Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man

Deaf and mute. Such a sad combination. All this man must have had for company for a long time was a deafening silence. He couldn’t speak up, neither he could hear what was being said around him. He would have not heard the bustling crowds around him in the market place neither could he have spoken what was on his mind to anyone. Imagine being trapped inside your body with all your thoughts bouncing around? Good thing he had a community around him who brought him to Jesus and begged him to heal their friend. On his own, he would not have heard of Jesus or heard His teaching.

Jesus got creative with this healing by putting His fingers in the man’s ears and then touched his tongue after spitting. What sounds a little weird and maybe gross wasn’t that to the Creator who was working to restore one of His image bearers to original design. It’s through touch and the use of body fluids that He was rectifying what had gone wrong in this man’s body. This is proof that Jesus doesn’t mind getting His hands dirty when He works on us.

Let’s be honest - we are quite a mess. When we begin to live for Jesus the Holy Spirit has His work cut out. He has to walk us through unlearning and undoing so many things that we have gotten used to. He then starts to do an internal reset and overhaul. The key is to give Him free access into every crevice of our life - however dark and disgusting it feels. The One who created and called you is unafraid to get into the pit with you and clear up everything that has cluttered or defiled you.

Would you stand before God like this man and allow Him to do as He pleases with you?

In His presence, restoration is a surety. The method of restoration - that is in His hands.

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