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Do you believe in miracles?

 

 

The headlines of the Jewish Telegraph recently read: “Their God changes the path of our rockets in mid-air, said a terrorist.” The quote is attributed to a lady living on the West Bank. Actually it is a throw back to a 1956 speech by David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, who asserted that if one is to be a realist, one must accept that miracles happen. Recently, another news source – Arutz Sheva – reported: “The Jewish nation’s existence for six millennia is a miracle. There is no single Jewish life without a miracle. Miracle is an essential part of our life…it is a source of hope in the dark and a gift of our dreams. And we know why – because these miracles are true.”

 

What about you – do you believe in miracles? Do you believe they happen today? Do you think you could live your whole life without the supernatural interventions we can only explain as miracles?

– Recoveries from terminal illnesses

– Instances of protection that escape explanation

– ‘Sudden’ reconciliation after decades of separation

– Undeserved forgiveness

– A heart that keeps beating and lungs that keep breathing without our control

– The revelation of hope amid an environment of despair

 

Perhaps one of the greatest miracles is the power of God to convict us of our rebellious ways and to create in us clean hearts, to turn us from hatred to love, from self-absorption to being focused on the interests of others, from nearsightedness to an eternal perspective.

 

You don’t have to give up logic  to believe in miracles that you can’t explain. Perhaps Ben Gurion was right: if you want to be a realist, you have to believe in miracles and the certain hope they offer.

 

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him–” 1 Corinthians 2:9

 

“And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe” Ephesians 1:19