The Marvels Never Cease

“For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.” (Joh 5:20 AV)

Why is it we limit the miracles of God to the gospels?  Or, at the very least, we think of the miracles of God are a very rare thing.  We have lost the marvel of what it means to be a believer.  God does not seem to work because we do not expect Him to work.  This promise was to the disciples.  Jesus promised them that if they believed and followed, then they would see things they would see no other way.  It is interesting that Jesus gave this promise a chapter before He lost most of His congregation.  In chapter six, Jesus preaches Himself as the bread of life.  He it speaking metaphorically.  Those asking the questions know this.  He states they must eat His flesh and drink His blood.  Taking that literally, anyone would have been confused and offended.  No wonder Jesus promised to show them marvels a chapter before He lost almost everyone.

To stand in amazement over who God is, and what God does should be the norm.  We should always be taken with amazement in all we see.  Just the other night, I was watching a short video on the mathematical precision of the observable universe.  The speaker was comparing the statistical realities of certain physical forces in our universe with something we could understand.  He explained the precision of the balance of gravity, the nuclear precision of all material things, and the balance of the universe in terms of mass and time.  Although I do not remember the exact characteristic he was explaining, but I remember the comparison.  He explained that, if the mathematical value of one of these forces was off by in infinitesimal amount, the material universe would not exist.  He compared it to a pile of dimes ascending from the earth, beyond the moon, to a point ten light years away.  If this value was off, even in the smallest of fractions, it would be like randomly picking one red dime from that pile on the first try.  Another comparison was a rifle target with a one-inch bullseye.  He asked if anyone could hit that target with a small caliber rifle in the auditorium in which he was presenting.  Many raised their hands.  Then he asked if anyone could hit that one-inch bullseye if the target was placed at the edge of the observable universe.  That would be the tolerance of a physical attribute of the universe which God created.  In other words, the existence of the material universe is a marvel in and of itself.

We allow the events of our lives to cloud our observation.  We cannot marvel at what God does because we are not looking.  Rather than see the mathematical precision of the known universe, we are overwhelmed by our current trials of faith.  We cannot see that food on the table and heat in the house are a marvel.  The fact God would have anything to do with us is a marvel.  That Jesus died and rose again that we might have eternal life is a marvel.  Miracles of God are all around us.  In our case, we see God doing one miracle after another.  Health issues are resolved beyond our expectations.  God is good.  All the time!  If we are not living in amazement, then our eyes are in the wrong place.  Jesus gave this promise.  He did not give it to some.  He gave it to all.  If we are not marveling at the work of God that occurs all around us, it is because we are blind to it.  If we are to live in amazement over the hand of God, we need to ask the Holy Spirit to show us His marvelous works to the children of men.