THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES

If you have been reading my recent blogs then you know that my brother went into the hospital on April 18 for drastic, extensive surgery to remove adenoblastoma.  And you also know that instead of a 10 hour surgery, and lengthy hospital recovery, he was out of the hospital by noon on the same day.  The blastoma the surgeons expected to find was gone!  What a miracle!

He and I have had many conversations since, expressing our joy and gratitude to God, but also thinking a lot about miracles.  The truth is we don’t see a lot of this kind of miraculous physical healing today.  All of us can think of people we know who are in desperate need of healing, and yet, most will probably not be healed.  

However, true and miraculous and awesome miracles do happen every single day, miracles far more wonderful.  

In the blog, “Explaining the Unexplainable”, I sited the account of the man who was born blind, whom Jesus healed, from John’s gospel, chapter 9.  There is more to that account.

When the man who was born blind expressed his incredulity with the religious leaders refusal to accept that the One who healed him MUST have been sent by God, they threw him out of the synagogue.

Then John tells the rest of the story, beginning in verse 35:

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man (a title Jesus used of Himself.  It refers to his humanity but the way He used it was also a claim to divinity.)?”

“Who is he, sir?” the man asked.  “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”

Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”

Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”

Do you know what that greater miracle is?  It’s the miracle Jesus does in a heart to bring the spiritually dead to life, to give the spiritually blind their sight.  These religious leaders THOUGHT they had spiritual sight, yet they refused to recognize Jesus as the Messiah for which they had been waiting.  In doing so, they proved themselves to be blind.

On the other hand, the man who had been physically blind recognized Jesus for who He was because He had been given spiritual (as well as physical) sight!  We can see the fruit of this change in the fact that the formerly blind man called Jesus Lord, he expressed his faith, (I believe) and immediately worshiped Jesus.

I love that in John's account, when Jesus heard the man had been thrown out of the synagogue, HE went out to find him!  All day, every day, all year long, Jesus is at work seeking sinful and undeserving men, women, and children and drawing them to Himself. He's doing so right now as you read this blog.

We don’t deserve that kind of love and forgiveness, but the miracle is that He continually offers it.  And when it is received, He miraculously transforms those who are spiritually dead and they become alive in Christ, eternally.  He performs the work of removing their spiritual blinders, so that, for the first time EVER, they truly “see” – spiritual truth, the evidence of God and His work all around us, the reality of heaven - as they have never seen before.  

The work Jesus does in us spiritually – by His grace, through faith – is the true miracle of miracles.