Good Friday morning! We are but one week from the next great celebration of the Resurrection! Time to once again think of our Lord's sacrifice for us. With that in mind, did God then close up His miracle shop? We read the stories in the Bible, hear the tales on the telly, and read a few books and articles about miracles in our modern age. But we have acquired a problem. We tend to look at God's miracles like some form of cosmic lottery. Someone buys the winning ticket, but it's never you or me. Someone in some far away town wins the miracle drawing, but it never happens to us. It's just the way our luck goes in this world. Wrong answer! The lottery is indeed a game of remote chances, but miracles do not arrive in that manner. If you think that a prayer for a miracle is like buying a lottery ticket, you have forgotten to whom your prayer is directed. If you think that gaining a miracle is based on some long odds, then you insult the one who loves to provide miracles for His flock.
You and I may not have a miracle happen in the dramatic way that Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal in a very public display of God's sovereign power. However, we just might if we will remain faithful in our trust. God has not closed up His miracle shop. I believe that packages bearing miracles go out daily, though the delivery may be less public than Noah's ark. Yes, Noah and his sons had to work for his miracle, but it did the job just the same as other more freely given miracles in the Bible. We might have to put in some effort to gain our miracles, or we might be able to bear witness to an undeserved and completely unearned miracle in our lives. Which is the greater blessing? Probably neither. God gives us the strength to build an ark, or the patience to wait for Him to act on our behalf. God can send a miracle almost before we can pray for the need, or He may ask us to pray for days and weeks before the miracle arrives. God may seem to let prayer after prayer go without acting just to see if we can develop the faith to keep asking, seeking, and knocking.
Your life may be in immediate mortal peril. You ask fervently for a miracle, but God seems to do nothing. What is He waiting for? My need is right now! When you arrive in Heaven, you have that question ready to ask. But then... you suddenly realize that the greatest miracle of all happened long before you were born. Jesus died on the cross to allow a sinner such as you and me to come to Heaven and be with Him forever. A miracle indeed.
Have a lovely weekend in Christ!Bucky
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