Do Miracles Still Exist?

    Do miracles still exist?

    Several years ago, Gracelyn was taking a friend home from a youth meeting. The stars twinkled overhead, as the two rode comfortably toward the friend's home. Gracelyn slowed the car and put her blinker on, preparing to turn down the road where her friend lived. About a half mile away, she could see the lights of a semi speeding toward her. No worries. She had plenty of time.

    There was no warning for what happened next. As Gracelyn pulled across the path of the oncoming truck, her car abruptly stopped. She did her best to get the vehicle moving again. Desperately, she tried changing gears, turning the car off and back on, and checking the parking brake. Nothing. 

    Time was running out. The truck bore down on the black car sitting in darkness across its lane. The two girls inside prepared to leap out of the vehicle and run. 

    For some reason, Gracelyn tried restarting the car one more time. To her amazed relief, the vehicle cranked correctly, and she pulled out of the way of the oncoming semi, feeling the car shake in the wind created by the truck as it passed behind her.

    Gracelyn walked into her own home sometime later, still shaken by the close call. Excitedly, she related the story to her mother. Her mother looked at her as she finished telling about the close call, then said,  with tears in her eyes, "That must be about the same time I felt like I needed to pray for you."

    Do miracles still exist? 

    I could use a miracle. I'm sure you could, too. A big splashy miracle that takes my breath away would suit me just fine. But there are days we are convinced in our humanness that getting our hopes up for a miracle is just setting ourselves up for disappointment. The disasters and trials, the sadness and suffering that we see on every hand sometimes seem to shout out at our feeble hopes in defiance. The quiet workings of the miracles are sometimes nearly drowned out beneath the raucous cries of doubts and fears.

    If you are needing a miracle, do not weary in asking. We serve a mighty God who is able to perform mighty miracles. Don't doubt His listening ear or His loving hand. The things that we cannot understand and cannot see our way through, He can change with the utterance of a single command. It does not matter if the problem is as small as a lost wallet or as large as a ruined relationship. It makes Him no difference if the miracle we seek is healing for a wasted body or a sin-sick soul. He is the worker of miracles. He always has been. 

    When the father in the Bible brought his son to Jesus seeking for healing, Jesus told him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Assured of the father's belief, Jesus healed the child.  

    Often miracles do not come about as we expect them to. Sometimes the miracles He sends are not the ones we asked for. Sometimes it looks like our pleas are answered with only more valleys through which to pass. Sometimes the miracle He sends is drawing us to a closer consecration.

    Maybe you believe God doesn't care about the miracle you need. Maybe you doubt that He has a miracle available for you. Take courage! Reach out in faith, grasp the hem of His garment, touch the foot of the cross.

    Do miracles exist? Ask Him for yours. He'd love to know you believe in Him enough to ask for the impossible.