It's a Miracle!

It’s A Miracle!!  This phrase is used quite frequently, but not always in the true sense of the words.  If I were to describe a miracle I guess the best way to do it was to say it was the place in time when God steps into, and causes a change in our human experience.  The secular Dictionary.com puts it like this; an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.  Man’s way of doing, and thinking goes only so far.  That which goes beyond human comprehension is labeled a miracle.

Some people aren’t comfortable with miracles, even some Christians, because they don’t trust what they can’t understand.  Through the centuries, religious folks have tried to figure God and his ways out. Years ago I attended a group that wanted to begin a Bible study.  The woman in charge, told us she didn’t know much about the Bible, so she would show us a video lesson. Fine with me, but I was to be proved wrong.  The celluloid professor began with the story of Moses, and his experience at the Red Sea.  I figured everyone was on board with this miracle, heck Charlton Heston had filmed it for posterity.  As the discussion continued, the teacher pointed to a map and boldly stated that everyone knew that Moses hadn’t gone through a parted Red Sea, oh no, he had in fact crossed a dried up REED Sea. Parting of a large body of water was, and is, humanly impossible they pointed out. At his point  I was about to rend my clothes, and I turned around to see the reaction of the other group members. They, and the woman in charge, were all nodding lamely in agreement. I decided this was not the group for me. It’s a miracle that this church is still in operation!

Is this story hard to swallow?  Certainly, with our limited human comprehension, but not when we put God in charge.  Those doubters, and unbelievers, could have saved themselves a lot of time, and aggravation, by referring back to God’s word.  "My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.”  Isaiah 55:8.  Through the years, and my own attempts at trying to figure God out, this verse finally made sense, and it didn‘t make me feel brain-dead either!  Let’s face it, God is bigger, smarter and infinitely more capable of pulling off an impossible display like this one.  Miracles can only be manifested once we acknowledge we can‘t figure everything out by ourselves.  That in no way brands us as ignorant, but it is a declaration of faith.  Get over yourself, God is bigger than all of us combined will ever hope to be.  I, for one, feel very secure with that, and you should too.

 The problem with trying to figure out miracles is that we assign lame human explanations to interpret supernatural occurrences.  It can’t be done!  And my question is, where do you stop?  Was there a Noah and an Ark?  Where Adam and Eve inhabitants of the Garden?  Did Jesus feed the multitudes with a few fish and barley loaves, or did the people open up their baskets and share?  What about Jonah, was he in a fish or on a raft? How about the virgin birth, and the resurrection?  We can go on and on, but when we dumb down one miracle, the rest fall like dominoes, and God is reduced to a magician, at best.

The Bible details almost 100 miracles, and every one is humanly impossible.  The prophet Jeremiah told us this, "Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.”  And Jesus confirmed it in his own words by stating, “…. "The things that are impossible for people to do are possible for God to do." Luke 18:27.  Why even Albert Einstein said that there were only two ways to live; believing nothing is a miracle or believing everything is. God is in the Miracle-working business, and whether your need is a healing, emotional or  spiritual desire, even something as mundane as monetary, He longs to do what he does best.  Do you still have doubts?  No problem, that means you’re almost ready to give up your plans, and turn them over to Him.  Today, trust, let go and wait for your miracle!