the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Mark 7:17-37
The Lord knows the heart of man very well and puts His disciples on their guard against what can come out of it. We have this same natural heart but, praise God, there is a remedy for it (Psalms 51:10).
After the statement He has just made, we can imagine what joy the Lord Jesus felt on meeting the Syrophenician woman. He appears, at first, to be very severe with her; this manifests in her not only great faith which nothing can discourage, but also true humility, for in contrast with the proud Pharisees, this woman does not lay claim to any title or merit. She takes her true place before God and accepts the judgment appropriate to her condition (Isaiah 57:15).
After this, the Lord Jesus restores the use of his senses to a deaf-mute after having previously drawn him aside from the crowd. Who would dare butt in on this interview of the Saviour with this poor afflicted man? The conversion of a sinner requires direct, personal and intimate contact with the Lord (see also Mark 8:23).
Our reading ends with the testimony of the crowds to the Lord Jesus, "He hath done all things well" (v. 37). Each believer, thinking of all his past, is able to confirm this in his own experience, "Yes, Lord, you do all things well".
