Two days ago I read a word in the Bible that has been installed in my heart since then. To be honest, I will say that I did not know what to think of her.
It is just a word, and in itself it is not complicated. When I stumbled upon this word (Incidentally, that's exactly what happened: I read the passage hurriedly when this word suddenly appeared and hit me like an obstacle in my career), I did not know how to take it. I did not have a hook to hang it on or a line to catalog it.
It is an enigmatic word in an enigmatic passage. But now, after forty-eight hours, I've found him a location; a place that is appropriate. Wow, what a word! Do not read it unless it bothers you to change your mind, because this little word could disrupt your spiritual furniture a little bit.
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Read the passage with me.
Then Jesus left the region of Tire and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and the Decapolis region. There they brought a man who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they begged him to put his hand on him. Jesus took him aside, apart from the crowd, and put his fingers in the ears of the deaf.
Then he spat and touched his tongue. He looked at the sky and, sighing deeply, he said: "Efata!" (Which means: "Open!"). With this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was untied and he began to speak well. (Mark 7: 31-35)
What a passage, right?
Jesus is presented with a man who is deaf and impaired in speech. It could be stuttering. It could be that it ceceara. It could be that, because of his deafness, he has never learned to articulate the words correctly.
Jesus, refusing to take particular advantage of the situation, took man apart. He looked at his face. Knowing that it would be useless to talk, he explained by gestures what he was about to do. He spat and touched the man's tongue explaining to him what, whatever, that was obstructing his speech was about to be evicted. He touched his ears. For the first time these were about to hear.
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But before the man said a word or heard a sound, Jesus did something that I never would have imagined.
Sigh.
What I could have foreseen would be an applause or a song or a prayer. Also a "hallelujah!" Or a brief teaching could have been timely. But the Son of God did none of these things. Instead he paused, looked up at the sky, and sighed. From the depths of his being flowed a torrent of emotion that said more than words.
SIGH. That word seemed out of place.
I had never imagined God as able to sigh. I could figure God as a being who gives orders. I could picture God as a crying being. I could figure God calling the dead ordering them to come out of the grave, or creating the universe with a word, but ... God sighing?
Maybe this phrase captured my attention because I comply with my daily quota of sighs.
I sighed yesterday when I visited a lady whose invalid husband had deteriorated so much that she did not recognize me. He thought I wanted to sell him some product.
I sighed when the six-year-old girl in the store, with a dirty face and insufficient coat, asked me for change.
And I sighed today when listening to a husband who told me that his wife does not want to forgive him.
No doubt you have fulfilled your quota of sighs.
If you have teenage children, you probably sigh.
If he has tried to resist a temptation, he probably has sighed.
If they have questioned his motives or if they have rejected his best demonstrations of love, he felt the need to take a deep breath and let out a sighing sigh.
I am aware that there is a sigh of relief, a sigh of anxious expectation, and also a sigh of joy. But none of those is the sigh presented in Mark 7.
The sigh in question is a hybrid combination of frustration and sadness. It is located at a point between a burst of anger and a burst of tears.
The Apostle Paul spoke of this kind of sigh. Twice he declared that Christians sigh while we are on earth longing for heaven. The creation sighs as if it were in labor.
Even the Spirit sighs interpreting our prayers. (2 Corinthians 5: 2-4) (Rom 8: 22-27)
All these sighs come from the same anguish: The recognition of a pain that we did not expect or a hope that is delayed.
Man was not created to be separated from his creator, so he sighs longing for his home.
Creation must never have been inhabited by evil, so it sighs, missing that Garden. And the conversations with God should not depend on a translator according to the original plan, so the Spirit groans for us, waiting for the day when human beings see God face to face.
And when Jesus looked at the victim of Satan's eyes, the only thing appropriate to do was to sigh. The sigh meant: "NEVER IS PLANNING THIS WAY". "Your ears were not created to be deaf, your tongue was not created to stumble." The imbalance of the whole system caused the languid moan of the Master.
So I found a place for this word. It may seem strange to you, but place it next to the word consolation, because in an indirect way, the pain of God is our comfort.
And in the agony of Jesus our hope rests. If he had not sighed, if he had not felt the weight of what did not obey the original purpose, we would be in a sorry condition. If he had recorded everything in the record of the inevitable or had washed his hands of all this smelly mess, what hope would we have?
But he did not do that. That holy sigh confirms that God still groans for his people. He groaned, longing for the day when all the sighs would cease, when what he had proposed would come true.
The deep communication between Jesus and the Father broke while he hung on the cross. That was the price he had to pay to reestablish communication between us, sinners, and God. we believe that this miracle reveals the unfathomable
mercy and compassion of Christ towards this present generation. Forever is his mercy and his love. Thanks for sharing @jenniferbrito, Jesus still yearns for us.
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Great story, the life of God is an endless story. I really loved this story. Blessings
Just a word from Jesus can change our lives.....
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Changed that man's life......
Thanks for sharing
Devil will always say no or yes to what never wanted but ehen God has sgned it never give up because he will always be there for you.
The devil may come with a plan to disorginze your live through a human being to tempt us but we should be able to resist that.
The lord shoukd always be our hiding point any time we find our selves in an evil condition.
Rember once again that when christ signed nothing can harm us
Thank you for sharing this. It was something I have never reflected on, but have read the passage numerous times.
Thanks for sharing @jenniferbrito, I admire the revealed word a lot, and it is true that many times we read and do not realize what it contains, that Jesus' sigh is full of love, so that his people know that God loves us, and He suffers for us, feels and suffers our anguish, as a Father does.
He is a miracle worker indeed, he does not have to consult any native doctor or herbalist before he can perform a miracle,just like most fake and false prophets do today.