I believe God can do miracles. It’s one of the aspects of God’s character that is most compelling to me. After all, if God’s abilities aren’t supernatural, then what would make him God?
I started thinking about this after my wife asked me to come upstairs to see her today. She was excited to show me the reports on our website traffic a day after we released our new design. I expected that we’d have a bit of an increase, as we notified all our friends and readers about the new design.
But our traffic more than doubled. In a single day.
Now this may not count as a miracle, but what it reminded me is that God can change your circumstances in an instant. Throughout the Bible, God shows his ability to completely turn around a situation as soon as He acts. Take this passage from Matthew:
“As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
“Yes, Lord,” they replied.
Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”; and their sight was restored” (Matthew 9:27-30a).
Just by walking up to them, these two men were instantly cured of blindness. Jesus healed many just by touching or visiting them. The widow in 1 Kings 17 was preparing her last meal and expecting to die, and a visit from the prophet Elijah provided food that lasted for days.
All these stories show that God can change things miraculously and instantly. And it’s an aspect of God’s character on which I cling. I’ve seen situations, addictions and lives cured and restored as soon as Jesus became part of the equation. And I believe God is still able to do miracles. I put my hope in God’s power, in his nature to remain as he has shown himself to be. And as I face situations that seem too hard for me, I hold onto the fact that God can change anything in an instant.
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I’m going to West Africa next week for a nine-week internship. Actually, I’m going to San Diego first on Monday, taking a van to Ensanada, Mexico just across the border, training for three days, and then going to West Africa. I’m super excited about this summer. The one little detail that’s holding me back is the $3,000 I still have left to raise. I’ve been saying to myself and others, “It’s going to take a miracle…”
I randomly decided to look up “miracle” pictures on Google Images just a few moments ago and this article caught my eye. After reading it, I was encouraged to thrust myself into God’s arms despite my anxiety and relentlessly depend on His divine provision and His miraculous nature. It’s no coincidence either that as I’m typing this, the song that’s playing on my Itunes is “All I Need is a Miracle” by Mike and the Mechanics…
I’ve experienced His provisions like this in the past. I was raising money to go to China a few years ago and on the day that all my money was due, God provided through two individuals the $1,000 that I needed! I keep telling myself, “If He can provide $1,000 in one day, He can provide $3,000 in a week.”
I read a quote as I was on Google Images that said: “I don’t believe in miracles. I depend on them.” I’m depending on His miraculous nature and His divine provision because raising $3,000 at this point is humanly impossible. With Him, it’s possible.