Opening Ears, Hearts, and Graves

Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Be opened, Jesus said. And this man's ears were opened. Imagine what that must have been like. The joy. These miracles of Jesus were truly life-changing. There's an isolation that comes with these disabilities, try as we might to overcome it. If people don't want to be called disabled, we can certainly use different words. But, on a deeper level, this matters a great deal. Because if we normalize these things that sin has caused, then we are, in fact, normalizing sin. So what Jesus is doing is not just healing people, but overcoming sin and its disastrous effects.