WHO AM I?

This is a very inspiring introspective about love, life and happiness:

A brief thought about miracles

Sometimes I feel that as Christians, we are indifferent to the miracles that happen around us. Indifference is not a kind word. It is the anti-thesis of being alive; it is a recipe for boredom that leads to spiritual death. Miracles are mighty, unexpected and mysterious. They are mighty because they turn upside down the laws of nature. They are unexpected because we often don’t look for them and when they happen, we explain them away as coincidences. They are mysterious because we cannot explain them but they are real.

I wonder if the real reason why we are indifferent to miracles is because, if we really believe in them, we are forced to reckon with what they reveal to us: that there is something more than mere materialism and that something is God. Miracles force us to confront that reality and perhaps we are fearful because of what that reality may demand from us.

Another explanation might be that as Christians we refuse to ground our faith in external signs. After all Jesus said in John 20:29: “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed” but if we already believe why not rejoice when the creator of the universe shows us a glimpse of his power from time to time?

The fact that many so-called miracles can be explained by science or are simply fraud should not stop us from testing everything and hold on to what is true (1 Thessalonians 5:21). An open heart will open your eyes, perhaps one day you will realize that your very existence is a miracle in itself because without God’s will we would simply cease to exist.