Miracles

Good Morning!! Miracles are without question, the thing we notice first, and want to see most. But the fact that Jesus performed miracles was not reason enough to believe that He was God. Elijah and Moses performed many miracles, but they never once laid claim to be a deity. Christ Himself was adamant that His miracles were not just evidence of His deity,...but of His dependence on the Father. He never downplayed the miracles He performed, He just wanted to make sure the people understood how and why He was doing them.

But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."—John 10:38 (NIV)

Miracles do point to the fact that the Father was in Him, He was in the Father, and He was dependent on the Father. Jesus didn’t need to come to earth as a man just to do things in His own divine power. God had already been dealing with man in that matter. (Things like giant pillars of fire and floods covering the earth come to mind!) Jesus is fully God, but on earth He wanted to demonstrate physically to the people what it was like to so totally depend on the Father for everything that all else would fade.

"As Christians we are perpetual miracles."—Charles Spurgeon

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Lord Jesus, the miracles You performed were amazing. We believe. We don't think of them as just cheap magic tricks, to dupe people into believing in You,...but instead we know them to be tangible manifestations of Your power,...when we depend on You completely. Strip away our false independence, Lord.  Thank You for showing us Your might, and what life can look like in dependence on the Father. Amen.

" Just know this;  God's loving care is all around us,...even when we don't sense His presence."