Our Estimations of Christ’s Dealings With Us

Our Estimations of Christ’s Dealings With Us

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

Mark 7:37

We never want to lose our spirit of wonderment at the dealings of Christ with us. Our text for today touches upon this very point. The citizens of Decapolis had brought to Christ ‘one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech.’ In typically untypical fashion, Christ took the man ‘aside from the multitude, and put His fingers into his ears, and He spit, and touched his tongue.’ Then, ‘looking up to heaven, He sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha that is, be opened.’ Immediately the man was miraculously enabled to both hear and speak. The reaction of the observers was an exhibition of unwise zeal in that they ignored Christ’s command to keep the event closed.

There is part of their attitude which is worthy of our adoption. The evidence before them was that Christ was the doer of works both miraculous and merciful.

Is this not exactly the evidence before us regarding the way Christ has dealt with us? From the miracle of our own salvation experience to His continual merciful intervention in our lives on a daily basis we have an abundance of evidence of Christ’s works toward us. Our evaluation of Christ’s works ought to be the same as theirs; that is ‘He hath done all things well.’ The whole of our attitude to life ought to be the hearty approbation of Christ’s dealings with us. In connection with that approbation, there ought to be in us the overwhelming effects of our own wonderment at what Christ has done. If you’ve lost that ‘astonishment,’ is it not the appropriate time you sought the Lord to restore it to you again? After all, ‘He hath done all things well.’ If others can see it, and rejoice in Him, shall we join them in praise?

Good and Gracious Father,

restore unto us the joy of salvation,

Fill us with wonderment as we

gaze upon the works of Your hands.

Where the Bush is Burning

Tomm Tice