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Here on earth, where we fight and suffer, here God comes to us; here he shares in our troubles – that is the message of this close connection into which Jesus comes with the deaf man in Sunday’s Gospel (Mark 7: 31 – 37). He heals through the might of his word; he breaks through the barrier which separated the sick man from the world of those who are well. In this miracle a guidepost is erected which points to the fact that the terrible ruin which rebellion against God and sin have caused in this world shall be halted and things shall be restored as at the beginning, when God created the world “very good”.
Evangelical Lutheran Church