People were overwhelmed with amazement, "he has done everything well", they said. (Mark 7:37)
The above words are the response of people as they witnessed Jesus healing a deaf and mute man. Yes, God does everything well. There is no incompleteness in the work of God. In fact, the account of creation in Genesis has the signature of God at the end of each day, “and God saw it was good”. There is nothing imperfect in all of God’s work except for the imperfection we see in the fallen world because of sin. God’s works are always witnessed with a sense of amazement. If we don’t, then the danger is that we will take his works for granted. So the people’s overwhelming amazement at God’s perfect work in making a deaf and mute man whole was indeed a proper response. However, there is one problem in this kind of overwhelming amazement. We find such a response from people only when Jesus performs a spectacular miracle before their eyes, but it was never seen during the dark hours of Jesus’ life. We see even his disciples deserted him when he was arrested. No one looked with overwhelming amazement at the cross while Jesus was dying there. Yet, we know that God’s ultimate perfect work was accomplished on the cross. True appreciation for Jesus is to stand under the cross in amazement and to say, 'he has done everything well.' Sadly, even today, Christians appreciate Jesus for spectacular works, but not for his work on the cross. Many stand in overwhelming amazement at Jesus when all is well and fine in life, but that amazement disappears when life goes through a tunnel. May the Lord help us to follow him because of the cross and not to see great miracles. Let us stand amazed at Jesus, even when life enters dark tunnels, because there is always the hope of seeing light at the end of the tunnel, because he will do all things well.
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