Miracle

Miracle

Miracle. What do we believe a miracle to be? Is it some great event that is performed by men? Do miracles even exist in this day and age? Are miracles tales of lore? Before we can answer these questions we have to know and believe certain things of the Christian lives we claim we are a part of. It’s not just that we categorize events that are strange or that lack in explanation for that are put into the shadow of miracle. The term miracle seems unable to be separated from an association with biblical inference.

Only natural to use as a starting point is the creation of all we know and we have the first of countless miracles. How can existence be spoken into being? It is “the miracle of life” that starts them all. How can we explain what it is that has taken place and lay claim to bringing it about? One of the basic concepts of a miracle is in its unexplainable form of happening. Miracle, being the word given to attach to the event(s) is not meant to explain it but it is there as a way of placing a special event or occurrence into a terminology that carries with it special or significant importance that transgresses from the blessings from God to the real world of humans.

From the beginning of creation, through the tests and trials of the Old Testament, and in spectacular examples in the New Testament are demonstrations of the love of God toward mankind. It is through the course of time where God has moved in ways to show mankind insights, revealing who He is to us, allowing for us to have a personal relationship with our God that so many miracles are performed. From Noah to Moses are groups of miracles showing Gods love in ways that mankind both feared and learned of the unlimited powers of our God.

It is the promise and the experience of salvation ushered in with the New Testament that miracles of mercy upon man are bestowed. From the virgin birth to the crucifixion and ascension the redemptive power of miracles works in the hearts...