Do Miracles Still Happen?
My thoughts drifted this morning to Sunday night at what we call Men's University. Pastor and one other man organized a get together for men for a meal and a time of study and forming accountability groups. The man told the pastor he was praying for 62 men to show up. It seems there were 68. They counted several times, a couple of people and they counted 68. That is not a miracle. The Miracle was that 62 men registered. The church bought 64 steaks and cooked them. The pastor thought he'd be going without a steak, but even he had one. Somehow everyone had a steak. I'd like to contrast this story with the one I experience in a Church some years back. A deacon was announcing the men's program that afternoon during the announcements. They provide dinner after the Sunday morning service and then go to the Men's program. I was planning on going to the men's program but as he was announcing the dinner and the men's program he said this: If you all are not planning to stay for the men's program don't stay for the dinner, we don't have enough for you all. I immediately thought of the Bible story of the seven fishes and five loves of bread. There are actually two times, once when Jesus and the disciples fed 5 thousand and once when they fed 4 thousand from a meager lunch for one person. I thought if we are Bible-believing church do we not believe anymore that God can make it enough when we bless the food? I did not stay for dinner or the Men's program, after that statement I changed my mind. In Genesis chapter 1 God spoke into existence this world we live in starting from light to the waters and the land. All the animals and when he came to his image-bearers he spent more time and fashioned us from the dust. As I was thinking about this I thought of the million or so descendants of Jacob that Moses led from Egypt to the promised land. God fed them with manna for 40 years. their shoes and clothes did not wear out. To me, that is even a greater miracle than the feeding of the 4 thousand and 5 thousand. Think of it a million people for 40 years. Can God not multiply a few steaks in our day and time. Sometimes it seems Christianity is just a fad and not something we really believe in, a supernatural God that created us from dust and can make our supplies last. Like the widow woman that fed Elijah during the famine. Her oil and meal containers were down to the last meal but they lasted through the famine and fed not only her and her son but Elijah the prophet of God also. God did that I believe to provide for the widow woman and her son because he had already been using ravens to feed Elijah in the wilderness. Miracle still happen and they are only as big as the need. 4 extra steaks not a big deal to a God that fed a million with manna for 40 years. Is the Bible just a bunch of stories or do we really believe it when we pray? God bless, LVZ.


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