Miracles

March 9

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein

Life is a miracle. This concept boggles my mind because it is so beyond anything that could have been accomplished apart from the great, unfathomable mind of God. Those who believe life emerged from primordial slime and evolved into the intricately different aspects of it that abound are simply exercising a greater faith than that which Christians have in the God whose handiwork we believe we see.

But beyond the evidence we have of His great mind that is behind all that exists (see Genesis 1) is the evidence of His unfathomable love that sent Jesus to the cross to pay the penalty for the sins of man! (See Revelation 13:8.) Our finite minds have great difficulty wrapping themselves around that glorious truth, as evidenced by the fact that so many disbelieve. Man is willing to embrace any number of false ways, but is unwilling to appropriate ‘the Way’ that grants forgiveness when we simply ask Jesus to wash us and make us clean in Calvary's flow.

But when we have believed, we have another hurdle to overcome--that which would deny the effectuality of His promises to us! When the challenges of life confront us, we should say, as Habakkuk did in His small book, "The promise is for an appointed time. Though it tarry, wait for it, for it will surely come. It will not tarry," Habakkuk 2:3. We are reluctant to say as Rich Mullins affirmed in his beautiful song, "My Deliverer Is Coming...I doubt my mind, I doubt my heart...but I will not doubt His promises.” I will not doubt His absolute care for me that assures He will be faithful to me--no matter what I see!

May we, no matter what our situation might be, look beyond our circumstances to the unshakable truth of God's love and promise of hope in our lives. May we be part of the category of men who do not doubt miracles, but who see them everywhere. May our eyes be opened to see the loving Deliverer who stands beside us and will lead us into the promised land of good that He has in His heart to give to us for time and eternity.