Healing

I have always been fascinated with the approach Jesus took when He healed people.

Mark 7:33
33After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue.

Mark 8:23
23He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"

There is no greater way to show indignity than spitting in ones face. Why did Jesus use this approach? I am no great theologian but here is what I think.

The deafness and blindness of these two men held a double meaning – they were cursed in the physical and spiritual. Jesus, the great teacher used this manner of healing in a way to show His true power and true feelings for the darkness in which these men lived. In a way, He was spitting in the face of Satan. I like that!

What I really like is that in the process of His death, burial and resurrection, Jesus fought and won the battle over death, hell and the grave. Through His victory we too are overcomers.