Everyday Miracles

Do you believe in miracles?  I’m not talking about the spectacular miracles that Jesus performed during His earthly life (human life).  The walking on the water, making water into wine, calming the storm kind of miracles.  Those were high-end miracles.  The kind that Jesus could perform because when He lived His 33 years in human form, He was still God.

No, I am talking about just regular miracles.  Unexplained events that make you ponder about life and it’s mysteries.  Do you believe in those kinds of miracles?

We are talking in Bible Class on Sunday about the “expectation of miracles” and what that means.  I can’t remember what everyone said but I do remember what it conjured up in my mind.  It makes me think that we should expect miracles.  That, as Christians, we should not write off extraordinary coincidences or out-of-the-norm events as fate or as “it just happened that way”.  But we should accept these experiences as God’s hand moving in our lives.  As God taking care of us and looking out for us.

Many of us pray on Sunday mornings, and throughout the week, the Lord’s Prayer.  You know the line that says “Thy will be done”? How many times have your prayed that?  For me it is heading up in to the thousands upon thousands of times.

Having prayed it so much, do you believe it?  I do and I don’t.  I do want His will done in my life.  But I also pray that and then run off and try to take care of things myself.  Of course I do a lousy job compared to what God can do.  But He waits for me to stop, turn around and give the problem back to Him to solve. In other words, if I stop taking things out of God’s In Box, He will probably take care of it much faster and I will stress less.

So, if we pray “Thy will be done” and then expect that His will is done, why are we dismissing the miracles that show that His will has been done?

Shouldn’t we, as His children, learn to recognize the everyday miracles that comprise our existence?  The accidents that were missed, the arriving on time somewhere when you were positive you were going to be late, the turning around at just the right moment to notice a pan on the stove has caught fire, the holding back a stranger who was just about to step in front of a moving car…. all of these and many more examples could be written off as coincidences or fate.  But shouldn’t we acknowledge them for what they are…miracles that show God’s will being done in our lives?

I hope that I will learn to be more mindful of the every day miracles that show that God is working in my life and the lives around me. I hope that my eyes will be opened to see them, my mind will acknowledge them and my heart will beat faster knowing that God’s hand was just visibly evident in my life.