“HE hath done all things well: He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.” (Mark 7:37.) So spake the multitude of Jesus. They had brought to him a deaf man, who had an impediment in his speech.
The Lord took the man aside, and we see Him and the man alone. He put His hand upon him as He had been desired, then looked up to heaven and sighed, and speaking to the afflicted man, said to him, “Be opened”— And in a moment “his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.”
How many of God’s own people are tongue-tied! They do not, they cannot utter the praise of God. They do not really believe that they are children of God; they dare not say, “We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”; they are not “giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.”
If the Spirit of the Lord was found in His people, who can and do “speak plain,” and they took aside from the multitude the poor stammers, and looking up to heaven, grieved that a child of God should not know and rejoice in the love of the Father, surely, more often, there would be deliverance. Only His finger can unstop the deaf ear, only His touch can loose the tied tongue, He, and He alone, has the power to deliver; but where His people have His sympathies, where they feel for souls in His affections, and, in measure as He did, sigh because God is not glorified, His power through them flows out by the Holy Ghost.” His ears were opened.” “Faith cometh by hearing. “Yet how many hear but a sound, or hear not at all when the words of love are uttered in their presence!” He that heareth...and believeth...hath.”
As you listen with the outward ear to the words of Jesus and of His God, do you indeed hear in your spirit, troubled soul? Are you not often deaf spiritually to the words of God? Hence it is, you do not speak plain. Hence it is, your testimony to the efficacy, as applied to your own case, of His all-cleansing blood is so confused. “The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin. “Do you hear the word ALL?” His ears were opened.” God frees the tongue by making His word enter the ear.
Now his tongue is unloosed, now the former stammerer not only dares to say, “My sins are forgiven,” but “He loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Such a testimony carries with it its own great force. A witness to the power and the love of Jesus fills those around with wonder; they give the Lord the glory, exclaiming, “He hath done all things well!”