“‘Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?’” – Jeremiah 32:27
For those Christians who are reading this devotional series on Jesus’ miracles and wondering why they have never seen a miracle, I want to encourage you. If you are a Christian, you HAVE experienced a miracle. The only way anyone can become a Christian is by God doing a miracle in your life. Ephesians 2:1-5 says that a non-Christian is “dead in the trespasses and sins…following the prince of the power of the air…by nature children of wrath…But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved…”
There’s a story in the Bible where a man named Lazarus lay dead for multiple days. Jesus called Lazarus by name, and the dead man returned to life! That is obviously a miracle. What Jesus did for you spiritually is the same as what He did for Lazarus physically. You were spiritually dead and belonged to Satan, then Jesus called your name, and you were born again, given eternal life, and saved from your former life and the eternal wrath of God! Before you knew God, God knew you. Before you called out to God, God called out to you. For this reason, the testimony of every Christian is a miracle story. God showed up in your life to save you!
The church Father Augustine (354 – 430 AD) believed, “the greatest miracle was the renovation of the heart, the healing of human desire from its corruption so that God is loved above all and one’s neighbor as oneself. While not denying ‘physical miracles,’ Augustine wrote in Expositions of the Psalms that these ‘miracles of the soul’ were the premier evidence of God’s ongoing creative work in the world.” (1)
As we study Jesus’ miracles, we see Him answering miracle prayers. This should give you hope to pray in faith, knowing that He still hears and answers prayers today! Here are two things you can do:
- Pray for yourself in faith, believing God can hear and answer.
- Pray for others in faith, believing God can hear and answer.
Matthew 13:58 reports that in Jesus’ hometown, “…he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.” While we cannot make God answer our prayers, it does seem that having faith that God can hear and answer, even doing the miraculous, never hurts. Lastly, sometimes we need to continue praying in faith even if our request is not quickly answered. In Luke 18:1-7, Jesus tells a parable about the virtue of persevering in prayer in which a widow is granted justice by a judge after her persistent asking.
As we study the miracles of Jesus together, my hope and prayer are that God will cause you to stand in wonder of His power and pray with faith and expectancy that the same God who did all the miracles in the Bible has not changed and is seeking, saving, healing, and delivering today. Thank you for the honor of helping you learn God’s Word about Jesus Christ.
If you’re reading this and wondering, “What even is a miracle?,” tomorrow’s devotional will have the answer.
Take some time today to pray for any friends or family you have who don’t yet know the Lord.
(1) Jonathan Warren P. (Pagán), “Providence and Miracles,” in Lexham Survey of Theology, ed. Mark Ward et al. (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018).
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