Hello friends, welcome to Embolden. I'm Chris Shatter, an ordinary Christian living with and learning about an extraordinary God. Wow, it's Day 27 on the Embolden Podcast of Giving 30 Days of Glory to God. An our verse today comes from Revelation 21, 23.
The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, but the glory of God gives it light and the lamb is its lamp. My prayer today is Father in Heaven, you are a God of miracles. You bring light when I am in darkness through your healing powers, and in ways I could never fully understand. Help me to see the tiniest miracles that you perform throughout my day so I can lift up my voice and glory to you, amen.
If you were asked if you believe in miracles, what would you say? Your answer would probably depend upon how you define a miracle. Some might call it a rare event. What if instead you changed your perspective and recognized that God works miracles in our lives every single day?
A standard definition of a miracle is quote, an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs, unquote. And again, how would you define extraordinary? As I've grown closer to God and understanding his ways, my view of the world has certainly changed. And when seen through the lens of creation being the work of God, we can find any number of impossible things made possible.
Luke 1, 37, affirms, for nothing will be impossible with God. I mean, I've been blessed with being pregnant and giving birth twice. Each time I've marveled at what was occurring in my body, a tiny human being built from microscopic pieces of the universe in a body that is itself the perfect factory for human creation. The parts all fit just perfectly, just about every single time for thousands of years, millions upon millions of instances.
You don't need to know statistics to grasp how impossible that should be. You know, many will say, well, that's just science. Who, of course it is. Science is the study of God's amazing work where the impossible happens all the time.
But let's set human biology aside. I can state for a fact that miracles happen regularly because I have experienced them. Oh, if you had only known me 30, 20, or even just 10 years ago, you wouldn't have seen Christ in my life. You would have seen a woman desperate for peace, longing for joy, fearful of not being loved or appreciated.
A couple of years ago, a friend who has known me for some time commented how she could now see the work of Jesus in me. Truly a miracle. I've seen that same work in a few friends, ones that I thought would never change. And the change that has occurred is one that only the hand of God would have accomplished.
When you think miracle, do you only think of cancer being healed, a death avoided, a financial windfall? If so, you need to rub the scales from your eyes. Just the fact that the sun rose again today was God's miracle of creation. His glory is revealed in so many ways.
Some include our continuous acts of human creation, while other times through the medicines He has placed here for us to, quote, discover. His miracle work is revealed each time a sinner recognizes their sin and has God to change her, and He does. And yes, whenever we are blessed financially, when we need it most. Friend, glorious miracles are at work right now in your life.
And like our future Eden, He doesn't need any outside source to cause the light to shine, because He makes impossible possible. Have a miraculous day. I hope you enjoyed this episode of The Abolden Podcast. Be sure to follow along so you don't miss any episode, and check out my blog at Embolden.net.