I've got a question for you. Do you believe that miracles still happen today?
That was the topic of this morning's sermon in church.
We aren't just talking about the major earth-shaking miracles like the parting of the Red Sea. Most of us might never see that kind of miracle.
What about a person who got all of the scans run on their brain to show that they had a tumor the size of a golf ball, then with prayer and no other treatment, goes back a month later to find that the tumor is shrinking and eventually gone?
Have you known anyone who had a miraculous healing? Or have you been the one miraculously healed?
Or what about the person who can't find something very important, only to pray and find that something in a most unexpected place? If that is a miracle, I have experienced it several times. Or maybe God is trying to tell me to clean my house.
Anyway, if you read this and want to tell me I'm nuts to believe in miracles and the God who would perform them, talk to me about it.
Totally away from that subject, my husband and I are going to be staying in a whirlpool suite at a motel tonight, not that we can afford it, but it was a prize from a silent auction held to benefit the community of St. Martin's which was hit by Hurricane Katrina. We sure are looking forward to it; so are our daughters who will be supervised by their 23-year-old sister. They are already talking about ordering pizza and watching three movies.
posted by MissinYou @ 10:48 AM
2 Comments:
I believe God still performs miracles today. I think that most people expect to see the "big" ones - things like Jesus performed before they will believe.
There is a lady at my church who had, I believe, a brain tumor or something that she says she was healed from (this was back in the '70s or early '80s). She doesn't have much use in one of her arms, and often needs to walk with the help of a walker, but the fact that she did not die like the doctors were saying, the fact that lots of people had prayed for her, she claims a miracle happened. I believe it can be true. I have only known her for about 6 years now so I wasn't around to witness it or anything (not that I would need to in order to believe it). But, I think God chose to heal her even though there was some damage done. He kept her alive when He could have called her home.
Thanks for responding, Shelley. I believe that God does perform miracles. We just often think, like you said, that miracles have to be big, like Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. God can still do those things; He's God, after all, the One who knows the stars by name and knows when a sparrow falls to the ground.
Many times when an unexplainable thing happens the person tries to find every means by which to explain it away. If what they need is a miracle they can see before they believe, their belief is built on shaky ground. Remember what some people thought about Jesus when He did a miracle? The Pharisees questioned His authority, others accused Him of doing these things through Satan.
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