20th July

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations. It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious. Isaiah 42, 1 & 21

People were overwhelmed with amazement. "He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak. Mark 7, 37

Contact with heaven

When the Lord comes back from Galilee he walks through the region of the Decapolis where he had delivered a demon possessed person of Gadara before. The testimony of this deliverance has brought forth fruit, because now instead of asking Jesus to leave the Gadarenians bring him a deaf and mute man and they ask him to heal him. However, the Master does not want this healing to become a spectacle; he also takes away the ill person from the crowd. He looks up to heaven and sighs before commanding: "Be opened!"