I easily believe that good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. The hard thing for me to believe is miracles. I see them happen in other people's lives and I definitely believe all of the miracles of the Bible. I guess I am a pessimist. My husband calls it being realistic.
I see my two healthy children as miracles. I guess being married for 15 years is a miracle. I just don't feel like my life has called for any amazing miracles. Other than my salvation, I don't believe miracles really happen in my life. Writing this down now, kind of sounds absurd.
A miracle is a miracle - big or small. I don't believe in coincidences. I believe that God is always at work. Maybe I do believe in miracles in my life.
The New Testament is full of Jesus' miracles. God also allowed many of the disciple to do miracles. Isaiah even prophesied that Jesus would do miracles. Matthew 13:58 says, "And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith." This was Jesus' hometown. Sad stuff! They missed it!
Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced.
1 Chronicles 16:12
Am I walking around experiencing God intervening continuously in my life and I'm missing it? In the Old Testament God's chosen people kept forgetting all of his work in their lives. I don't plan on trying to create any of my own miracles, but Jesus told his disciples that they could do certain miracles when they had faith filled prayers. I guess I lack faith sometimes. I'll keep praying about it.
He replied, "Because you have so little faith I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:20
HAVE YOU EVER...lacked faith?
Isaiah 35:5-6, John 20:30-31
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