# 481 - Today's Living Word comes from Mr 7:34,35 “Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.”
Remember, this man whom Jesus is about to heal cannot hear. Jesus has already communicated to the man that He is aware of the mans malady by touching his ears and his tongue and now communicates to the man where the man's help will be coming from.............. Jesus looks to heaven and sighs.
The word “sigh” here in the Greek indicates an inaudible prayer. Jesus wants this man to make the connection to His divinity in what is about to happen. Why speak the Aramaic word “Ephphatha?” My guess is that it is a language the man knew and it is an easy word to lip read. (Go ahead, try it! Eff fath' thuh) As Jesus mouthed the word, the man understood Him to say, “Be opened, be unshackled, be freed to function normally!”
And so Jesus completes His message to the deaf man. A message that can be restated in this manner: “ Because of My divine power, I am commanding your ears and mouth to be opened” And just as we pray in the Lord's prayer, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” It was so. Spoken in heaven....done on earth. And “immediately his ears were opened and the impediment of his tongue was loosed.”
I'm Duane Matz and that's Today's Living Word.
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