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JESUS’ HEALING SPITTLE
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
Mark 7:31-37

Psalm 145

 

“…he spit, and

touched his tongue…”

 

JESUS’ HEALING SPITTLE
 
Jesus healed the deaf and dumb man in a most remarkable way. He could heal simply by the power of His Word. But here, He not only used His words but also His fingers and His spittle. Why? It was to impress upon this man that He Himself was his Healer. The Lord used sensory means freely to help people understand who He was, and what He could do. A picture is worth a thousand words. His act revealed His identity as the God-Man. His fingers and spittle proved His perfect humanity. The power that came through them showed His true deity. Moreover, the spittle of sinful man is full of germs. But one can be sure that the spittle of the God-Man was absolutely pure and clean.
 
It is recorded that Jesus sighed as He healed the man. Why? Calvin insightfully commented that His “sighing was a sign of His powerful emotion — and it shows us His singular love towards men when He so much sympathised with their miseries.” Here is another display of Jesus’ emotional sufferings for us — “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb 4:15).
 
THOUGHT: Jesus’ spittle was absolutely hygienic.

PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee for Jesus’ perfect humanity.

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