If you look at what the Scripture
scholars say about the miracle stories in the Gospel of Matthew, you will find
that there are 10 different miracles that Jesus performed recorded in chapters
8 and 9 of that Gospel. What are we to make of those miracle
stories, particularly of the one we hear today, of the way Jesus drove out a demon
from a man who was made mute. Are there logical explanations for
these miracles? We can debate that topic
for hours and still not come up with an answer. The crowds did not know what to make
of the miracles that they saw Jesus perform.
They said: “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” Then the Pharisees respond by
attacking Jesus, saying that it is by the Prince of Darkness that he is able to
drive out those demons. And perhaps there are miracles
happening in our own life that we don’t want to recognize or that we just don’t
know how to make sense out of them. Jesus allowed the blind to see, the
deaf to hear, and the mute to speak. He
gave the hungry food. But it goes beyond
that. Jesus removed the blindness and the
deafness and the close-mindedness that we harbor in our hearts. He allows us to go beyond that demons and
those barriers that are holding us back. Perhaps those are the little
miracles that are happening in our lives that we are unable to recognize. And perhaps those miracles are not so little
after all.
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