God hasn’t spoken from a burning bush lately. Or parted the
Red Sea. And at the last wedding I attended, the water didn’t turn into wine.
But God is definitely still in the business of performing
miracles. Maybe we just don’t notice. Worse, maybe we take them for granted.
Who keeps the stars up in the heavens? Who keeps the Earth
spinning? Who makes sure the sun stays lit? God does. And he never stops making
sure the universe is running perfectly. That’s a miracle.
He stretches out the
north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. (Job 26:7 ESV)
Who keeps the oceans within the shores? Who makes the rivers
run through the countryside? Who showers the earth with rain? God does. And he
never stops making sure that water and with it—heat—are transferred across
continents. That’s a miracle.
But what about friends and family who are ill, who have a
crisis of health? Can we trust that God will provide a miracle?
Yes, even if it’s not necessarily the miracle we want.
1. When God designed our bodies, He designed a miracle, set
it in place and started it working. You have heard that our bodies are entirely
remade—cell-by-cell—every seven years? Science refutes part of that, saying
that our brains and hearts don’t regenerate—they continue to grow. But science
agrees that essentially our cells die and our bodies then create new cells. And
these new cells have the miraculous possibility of health and vitality. That’s
a miracle.
2. And the part where science says our brains and hearts
continue to grow? That’s a miracle too, because it’s our brains and our hearts
that we need most in order to seek God and love Him more.
3. Our physical lives themselves are a miracle. A baby—a
whole, complete and perfect human being where none existed before. It’s a
miracle.
Psalm 139:14 I praise
you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I
know that full well.
After God set all the miracles in place—the universe, the
Earth and our bodies, God then performed another miracle, bigger than all the
rest combined. He temporarily set aside his divinity and his presence in heaven
to become human for our sake. He took on the miracle of a human body, lived a
miraculous life without sin, performed physical miracles for us to perceive and
be able to realize his divinity. Then at death he was resurrected to give us
the miracle of spiritual life in heaven with him. That’s a whole lot of
miracles, all in the one life of Jesus.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
We’re not divine. We’re not able to touch the blind and give
them sight or feed 1000 people with a whole-wheat muffin and some fish sticks.
But our lives are miracles, nonetheless. And Jesus can use our lives to show
his love to others so that they too can be children of the living God. That’s a
miracle.
We praise God for the miracles He has done in the past, the
ongoing miracles He set in motion, the miracles we are not even aware of and
the miracles yet to come.
Want to be used by God? Want to let God perform miracles
through you? It can happen, if only we believe and see the miracles happening
all around and through us, every moment of every day.
