Children of God don’t need miracles. We live a miraculous
life in this world but we don’t require miracles. The Bible says in Luke 24:40
that as Jesus spoke He showed them His hands and feet that still bore the marks
of His crucifixion. This was actually not His original optimism. When Jesus rose
from the dead He deliberately maintained a level of secrecy because He wanted
to determine if His people would believe His resurrection without actually
seeing Him physically. But Hs people could not believe it; how disappointing.
Then Jesus physically appeared to them, still,
‘…the whole group was startled and
frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost! (Luke 24:37).
Nothing in life can
be more real than Jesus and His word but the human mind considers Him ghostly,
unreal, unrealistic. Many people who profess the Christian faith subconsciously
think Jesus a myth and the Bible no more than a book of legends. The people
couldn’t see He was real; they couldn’t wrap their minds around His word. They
thought He was a ghost even with Him standing right in front of them. What did
Jesus do? He gave them His word saying, ‘why
do you doubt me? –look, it’s really me’. To save them from their failure, the
first thing Jesus did was to give them His word. His word is the key, not the
miracles. The word takes precedence; it should have been enough. But because of
their natural limited minds, Jesus also showed them the nail marks on His hands
and feet as He spoke. The action
complemented His words. Miracles are extra, not standalone proof of God. It was
the same people before whom God parted the red sea like a curtain that later
doubted God’s ability to give them meat. His word encapsulates His power to
save, deliver, and triumph. Miracles astound the natural mind; it unsettles the
lost and the unbelieving like light dazzles the eye that have been in the dark
too long. A child of God must know this; the word of God is more than enough to
change any situation and accomplish any feet.
Ps 33:6
The Lord merely spoke,
and the heavens were created.
He breathed the word,
and all the stars were born.
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