"Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all His miracles which our fathers told us of?" In a previous article, I wrote on the subject, "You Can't Live On Miracles." Today I want to balance out the scale, as it were, and write on, "You Cannot Live Without Miracles." It it true we cannot live 'on' miracles, yet at the same time and just as true, we cannot live 'without' miracles in our lives.
Christianity is a miracle religion, the Founder's birth and bodily resurrection, just to name two, prove this to be true. Also, the saints' new life begins with the miracle of the new birth. And every so often thereafter, the miraculous pops up, so to speak, to enable him or her to accomplish God's plan on earth. No one ever got in on a miracle that was looking for one. They come as we are busy doing the Will of God! A.W. Tozer has an article entitled, "Miracles Follow the Plow."
If we, like Gideon, wonder why there are so few miraculous events occurring in the church today the answer is the same as in the dirt farmer's case. It is, like Israel, because of sin and unbelief. And these two are not compatible with the performance of miracles!
Interestingly, had Gideon remained in his unbelief, he would never have been mentioned in God's "Hall of Faith," as found in Hebrews chapter eleven.
If we, like Gideon, wonder why there are so few miraculous events occurring in the church today the answer is the same as in the dirt farmer's case. It is, like Israel, because of sin and unbelief. And these two are not compatible with the performance of miracles!
Interestingly, had Gideon remained in his unbelief, he would never have been mentioned in God's "Hall of Faith," as found in Hebrews chapter eleven.
O, how often through these many years I've had to cry out to my God like the burdened father in the book of Mark, "Lord, I Believe; help thou mine unbelief."
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