Miracles

 

 

Somewhere in time, this week, I have been thinking of miracles.  I believe in miracles, but it’s not something you see every day.  This week I have been looking for a way to do something.  Every avenue I pursued led to a dead end and every door I knocked on wouldn’t open.  I then decided that I needed a miracle.  What I was trying to do may be possible, but it’s not highly probably, so I need divine intervention. 

I tried to think of the miracles in the Bible.  Is there some common denominator - well yes, only God can make a miracle, but what about the people that receive them. 

There was a woman in the Bible that had been sick for a while.  She had exhausted all of her funds seeking cures from doctors. Out of money and out of funds, she was searching for hope.  She heard Jesus was going to pass through her town, she found hope.  She determined if she could just touch the hem of his garment, she would be made well.  Even though he was thronged by the crowds, she pressed on and pushed through and reached out with all her strength and touched his garment.  It worked, she was well.

Mark 5:34 (NIV) He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Her faith led her to her miracle.

Abraham had a promise.  God promised him he would be the father of nations, yet he and his wife had no children.  When God gave them the promise, they were well along in years, but they still believed.  After they received the promise, they waited and waited. Day after day, year after year Abraham clung to his promise and waited.  About the time hope was starting to wan, they conceived a son and Isaac was born.  He was the son of the promise, a miracle. 

Romans 4:19 (NIV) “Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him.”

With Abraham, he needed to couple his faith with patience.  His miracle didn’t happen right away, but it did happen.

Paul came to know Christ through miraculous circumstances, but his ministry was a hard one.  He was beaten and imprisoned multiple times.  We know that he had faith, he was able to pray for others and God healed them.  We know he had patience. Sitting in prison, writing letters to the churches, he was waiting for release.  Paul had one problem, he had a thorn in his flesh.  There are speculations that he struggled with his eyes, but I don’t know for sure.  I do know he prayed three times for the Lord to deliver him, but the deliverance never came.

2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (NIV) “Three time I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

Paul had faith to be made well and the patience to wait. He trusted God even when the answer was no.  Even when no miracle would happen. He trusted the Lords purposes overrode any of his own desires.

The miracle is that God is there to guide us to the good miraculous times and God is there to see us through the hard and challenging times.  In every situation, God is there.  To me that is miracle enough.

 

Third Day - I Need a Miracle (Official Music Video) from third-day on GodTube.