1 Kings 4 & 5 Elisha’s Miracles Month of Miracles
The easy and the hard both happen to us on a daily basis. Some stuff we do not even give a second thought. The light changes, we push the gas, and the car goes. We open the faucet and water fills our glass. We look toward the East and the sun peaks over the hills to offer a visual feast. Other things take place which feel so hard to accomplish that we wonder how and why this thing took place. The baby takes the first breath. The final breath is not received until after all the family has arrived. The broken arm heals, the final step of the marathon is planted, or the evil is put down once and for all.
Miracles are both easy and hard. It is almost funny to note that they can be of the same stuff. One might see the thing as hard, another as easy. One will moan under the stress and load of a particular situation, while another will sail along through life with the same situation. Both are miracles, both are amazing. We always say that miracles are of God. We always say things that lead us believe that God makes miracles happen, even plans the miracles in our lives. They are God moments when we are offered a closer glimpse of the kingdom. Miracles show a closer walk with God.
However, I think miracles may not be about God at all, at least not in the sense that God provides them for us alone as if we are consumers at the supermarket asking for a miracle stew to meet our hunger. Just perhaps miracles are in the way we approach our lives. Maybe Einstein was right when he said, “Either everything is a miracle, or nothing is a miracle.” Perhaps how we understand God’s presence in our lives and our everyday events, both hard and easy, dictates if and how we identify miracles in our lives.
The miracle is life itself. It is when we begin to categorize some events as easy and others as hard that we undo the very grace of God’s life giving Spirit. It is all miracle, and it is all both hard and easy at the same time. To claim a miracle of God is to claim the very being and presence of God. And that my friends, ah yes brothers and sisters in the faith, that claiming of God and only God in our lives as our miracle power, which runs in and through all things at all times, is the beginning of wisdom and moves us all a little closer to home.
Blessings, Dave Weesner
Sunday Worship
Scripture: 2 Kings 5:9-14
Sermon Title: “Miracle Healing”
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