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•31耶稣又离了推罗的境界，经过西顿，就从低加波利境内来到加利利海。32有人带着一个耳聋舌结的人来见耶稣，求他按手在他身上。33耶稣领他离开众人，到一边去，就用指头探他的耳朵，吐唾沫抹他的舌头，34望天叹息，对他说：“以法大！”就是说：“开了吧！”35他的耳朵就开了，舌结也解了，说话也清楚了。36耶稣嘱咐他们不要告诉人，但他越发嘱咐，他们越发传扬开了。37众人分外希奇，说：“他所作的事都好，他连聋子也叫他们听见，哑巴也叫他们说话。”
这是耶稣行的另一个奇迹。马可福音到目前为止已经记载了很多这样的神迹，我们读起来可能会感到厌倦。但我们应该为这样的想法感到羞耻!我们应该仔细的读一下这个神迹，并且设身处地为那个聋哑人想一想。这个神迹对我们来说已经司空见惯了，但对于那个又聋又哑的人可不是。这是他有生以来第一次能听见。这是他一生中第一次能够清晰地说话了，甚至在此之前他从来不知道一个词正确的发音是什么。
今天我对这段经文的思考集中在经文中的一个短语。耶稣行完神迹之后，众人都说:“他所作的事都好。”我不能这么说我自己。差远了。我可能是成功的，但这并不意味着我每件事都做得很好。事实上，我的生活和你的一样，到处都是失败。保罗在罗马书第3章提醒我们。“没有行善的，连一个也没有。”在神的眼中，我们所做的没有一件事是“好的”!反对耶稣的人在许多场合试图挑耶稣的毛病，但没有人能找出来。耶稣做的每件事都很好。
这就是我在天父上帝面前获得的安慰。保罗在加拉太书第3章说，凡受洗归入基督的，都是披戴基督了。当我每天用主祷文祈祷时，我都会思想这个真理。我是神所爱的孩子，藉着圣洗礼我已经披戴了基督。不是我做了什么，而是耶稣为我做了什么。“他所作的事都好。”
祷告:主耶稣，我在神面前一无所缺，因为你属于我，我也属于你。求你教导我以神儿女的身份度过每一天。阿们。
Mark 7:31-37: Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. 32 There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. 33 After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. 34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”). 35 At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. 36 Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. 37 People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” (NIV)
Another miracle. We may grow tired of reading about Jesus’ miracles. Shame on us! Can you read about this miracle and put yourselves in the deaf man’s shoes for a moment? There was nothing about this miracle that was old hat to him. For once in his life, he could hear. For once in his life, he could speak clearly, even though before this time he never really heard how certain words should sound.
Today my thoughts focus on one phrase in our text. The people were saying, “He does everything well.” I can’t say that about myself. Not even close. I may be successful, but that doesn’t mean that I do everything well. In fact, my life like yours is littered with failures left and right. Paul reminds us in Romans 3. “There is no one who does good, not even one.” Nothing we do rises to the level of “good” in God’s eyes! They tried to find fault with Jesus on many occasions, but no one could. Jesus did everything well.
And that is my comfort before God in heaven. Paul said in Galatians 3 that all who have been baptized into Christ have clothed themselves with Christ. I think of this truth every day when I pray the Lord’s Prayer. I am God’s dear child because I am clothed with Christ through baptism. It is not what I have done, but what Jesus has done for me. “He has done everything well.”
Prayer: Lord Jesus, I lack for nothing before God because you are mine and I am yours. Teach me to live each day as a child of God. Amen.