Topic: Life Beyond Miracles (Part One)
Preamble:
In the Christendom or Christian circuses there has much
fuss generated by the word miracle(s) and as a result much emphasizes and particularisms
have been place on it. And it is very particular in the sense that it has
become a spectacular thing to romance in most Christian gatherings and the
absence of it means the absence of God in the mind of many people. These days
it seems that the validation of any Christian gathering as a spiritual
gathering is that in that gathering miracle(s) took place. In other words, to
many people miracle is what validates the authenticity of Christianity. In this
series we are going to accentuate if miracle is the validator of Christianity
or is it just part of Christianity and also, can Christianity still stand
authentically without miracles?
Anchor Text:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father.”
John 14:14
Text Of Interest:
“He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the
children of Israel.”
Psalms 103:7
The verse above which is my text of interest has placed
emphasis on two categories of people. Moses on one hand and the people of
Israel on the other hand and it goes on to state two important things God did
to them. One He made known His ways to Moses and at the same He made known His
acts to the children of Israel. This signifies that the acts of God and the
ways of God are not the same, though both are coming from the same source. The
ways of God takes preeminence over the acts of God because the ways of God are
independent of the acts. In other words the ways of God can stand without the
acts and the acts cannot stand without the ways. The ways therefore justifies
the acts but the acts cannot justify the ways because it is a byproduct of the
ways. Therefore, the byproduct is just like the taste of the pudding and not in
any way the main dish.
I typed the word miracle on my system and my system
suggests these words (wonder, phenomenon, marvel, sensation, vision and dream)
as the meaning of it. Well, in the Church world, these words listed cannot be
seen as totally suitable for their description of miracle because is way beyond
what they think and know about miracle, though grammatically they can accept
all of these words mentioned. Therefore, in the Church world miracle is seen as
that divine intervention which obstructs a negative course on human in this earth
to produce and project a better course in the life of whoever is concerned.
That means miracle is divine or of the divine! I concur to this very definition
because as humans, there are times some situations overwhelm an individual and
it is done on him or her that the only way out of the situations is divine
intervention. And really, when he or she leans on his or her divine connection;
things turn around for good.
One can say therefore, that miracle(s) is needed or
happens because of the presence of needs that should be met that is beyond the
capacity of the individual at the center of the situation. Notice that in this
context, the word situation or condition if you like is relative. It is
relative in the sense that what one sees as a situation may not be a situation
to another. Take for instance, if you are in need of a thing and know how to
provide for yourself, you just go ahead and make provision, you don’t need a
miracle. If you know how to heal yourself of a sickness you don’t need to
‘pray’ about the sickness. And if you know how you can always get yourself a
meal, you don’t need a miracle for that, and someone who doesn’t have the
withal on a serious note should pray and for sure, such prayers prayed in faith
do get quick results.
The questions therefore are; do Christians actually need
miracle? Is miracle the best they can obtain from God? Does God want them to be
in need of miracle? And if one didn’t receive miracle does it disqualify the
potency of God’s power to provide?
To be continued……
Till I come your way again, keep on basking in the arena
of indubitable truth!
Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu.
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