Miracle
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:5, KJV
I know that every day is a miracle, but for the past few days when the Holy Spirit has awakened me I hear Him say in my spirit, “Today is a miracle!”
Miracle: a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency. A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences.
Miracle in Hebrew is mopheth: wonder, sign; portent. The word signifies a divine act or a special display of divine power
4592 Miracle in Greek is Semeion: a manifest deed, having in itself an explanation of something hidden and secret; a sign, a mark, indication, token.
Most of us have gotten so accustomed to waking up and seeing another day that we forget it is a divine act. We have no control over whether a new day happens or not, but we make plans and expect to see the new day. In the Bible we read where Jesus performed many miracles for the people so they would know that He was the son of God. Many of us don’t see those kinds of miracles today but everyday God speaks to us in miracles.
As I sat with God meditating and writing this devotional, I kept thinking about the word “miracle”. It came to me that my body and all its functions are miracles. We can eat all the right foods and do regular exercise but there is no guarantee that when we wake in the morning our body will function as it has done before.
I have lived sixty-one years of life and for most of my life I exercised regularly and tried to eat the right foods. In my late fifties I was told I had high blood pressure. I was shocked by the information and I began to look at ways to keep my blood pressure down. I had done nothing different to this body but all of a sudden it needed help to function correctly. I prayed for a miracle healing and after some years I began to take the blood pressure medicine.
All those previous years I took for granted that my body worked just fine. It never occurred to me that it was divinely designed to work and there was not much it needed from me. I realized later as I began to take the medication, even the medication was a miracle. God had given man the divine intellectual knowledge and wisdom to comprehend how to put substances together that could help a body He divinely made to function correctly. We may not see the miracles like they were in the Bible but if we ask God, He will show us his miracles everyday!
Father, we are distracted towards believing that you are not doing the same miracles today as we have read in the Bible. But that is so not true! You have given man so much wisdom to solve problems that we forget the wisdom comes from YOU! The knowledge that you download in man is a miracle and we miss seeing you. Please open our eyes to see your miraculous miracles, for they are all around us. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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