He sighed.

Mark 7:32-35, 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. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

He sighed, perhaps at the terrible price of sin in the world. Perhaps because He had just come from healing a gentile woman whose faith was so great that she would insist on gathering “crumbs from the children’s table” and her daughter, not even present, and not even touched, was healed. Or perhaps because “He took our illnesses and bore our infirmities.” Or perhaps because we all suffer from being unable to see, to hear and to speak the words of life without His healing touch?

We come to You needy, blind, deaf and dumb that You may open our eyes to see You more clearly, our ears to hear what You desire for us and our tongues to praise and proclaim You!

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