I like to think that I’m a bit of a miracle. I’ve come out of an egg. I’m rather good looking. And I have an intellect that makes me the parrot equivalent of an Einstein or a Galileo. But I’m not alone in being extraordinary. No, the entire world around me is a living, breathing miracle. Everything from the stars suspended in the vaults of Heaven, down to the individual flowers that are spreading a blaze of Summer glory around our garden outside. So much of life is an extraordinary miracle that stretches far beyond the limitations of chance or coincidence. So why do so many humans take it all for granted, and barely give it a second thought?
Our world is far from perfect; the predator-prey scenario which plays out in so many different ways is a corruption, a tainting and an affront towards what would otherwise be a world of near perfection. But we need to look past this, and beyond natural disasters and illness and disease, to glimpse the miraculous handiwork of our Master Creator. We should all wake up every morning with a sense of wonder in our hearts. Because if we don’t, then we will fail to notice the presence of God in our world. And where we fail to notice Him, we also fail to recognise His extraordinary love for the world and towards all living things. We simply need to open our eyes and our hearts up to Him, and then an ordinary day will be transformed into something wonderful, extraordinary and miraculous.
“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.”
(Ravi Zacharias: [1946-2020]: Indian-born Canadian Christian evangelical minister)
“The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specialises in the impossible. Nothing is too great for his almighty power. Nothing is too small for his love.” (Corrie ten Boon: [1892-1983]: Dutch Christian writer who survived internment in a W.W.2 Nazi concentration camp)
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities -his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
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