All Things Well

Day 56: Mark 7:24-8:10

“And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, ‘He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.’” - Mark 7:37 ESV

In our reading two days ago from Psalm 40, we read the following verse: "In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear." (Verse 6)

The Hebrew for "given me an open ear" can be literally translated as “ears you have dug for me.” I like that imagery when we're looking at what Jesus did for this man who was deaf and mute. He dug ears for someone who could not hear.

The crowd who saw what Jesus had done reacted in a way that many of us would do well to imitate. What they were experiencing as they watched Jesus heal this man was something for which their minds didn't have a category. We often want God to do something in our lives that we can control and explain, but this is rarely how God prefers to move.

There is nothing that Jesus does not do well. He is a healer. He is a people Person. He is infinitely strong. He is everything we need for this life and the one to come.

Bottom line: There is nothing in our lives with which Jesus cannot be trusted.

“The last part of v. 37 alludes to Isa 35:5–6 (“Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.”)." - Black, A. (1995). Mark (Mk 7:36–37)