My friend tells me that God doesn't do miracles in these "last days". No miracles?
Most of my Christian friends constantly ask for God's intervention. We ask for healing of cancer, or money to meet our needs, or the restoration of a relationship or that a celebrity would discover God and make Jesus their Lord. Man, I ask for that stuff all the time.
But my friend says the major miracles aren't part of our culture. He says, God can do extraordinary things - He did before and the event was recorded in the Bible so that future generations would believe. And, he says, that's why big miracles don't happen today.
Am I wasting my prayers?
I don't ask God to do miracles to make me believe more. (Well, maybe once in a while!) But generally, I'm just asking God to intervene in my life because I've done all I can do - the rest needs to be supernatural or the situation won't change.
A few major events in my life have happened because of prayer. I'm convinced God was there. He acted and my prayer was answered.
I guess I'd love to see a major intervention in an aircraft that doesn't crash or a tsunami that abruptly ends - all by the hand of God. It would increase my faith. It'd hit CNN and the whole world would know. And for my friend, it would show him that God is active, today.
I'm convinced that God still does do miracles all the time, but we often write them off as chance or something else.
ReplyDeleteLook at even the miracle of the plane that crashed in the Hudson river. Everyone walked away and who got the credit? Not God.
Yes the pilot and crew were great, but Someone else kept that plane from breaking apart.