--Jesus Still Works Miracles Today-

Tell me, why are all the stories of Jesus' miracles in the Bible? Why are the Gospels full of such people? Such hopeless people? Though their situations vary, their conditions don't. They are trapped. Estranged. Rejected. They have nowhere to turn. On their lips, a desperate prayer. In their hearts, desolate dreams. And in their hands, a broken rope. But before their eyes a never-say-die Galilean who majors in stepping in when everyone else steps out.

Surprisingly simple, the actions of this man. Just words of mercy or touches of kindness. Fingers on sightless eyes. A hand on a weary shoulder. Words for sad hearts....all fulfilling the prophecy: "A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out" (Isaiah 42:3 NIV).

Again I ask. Why are these portraits in the Bible?...Why did God leave us one tale after another of wounded lives being restored. So we could be grateful for the past? So we could look back with amazement at what Jesus did?

No. No. No. A thousand times no. The purpose of these stories is not to tell us what Jesus did. Their purpose to tell us what Jesus does.

"For whatever things were written before were written for our learning" Paul penned, "that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope" (Romans 15:4).
We ask, "Where is God when I hurt?"

Please remember, the goal of these stories is not to help us look back with amazement, but forward with faith. The God who spoke then, still speaks. The God who forgave still forgives. The God who came still comes. He comes into our world. He comes into your world. He comes to do what you can't. He comes to move the stones you can't budge.

The Lord knows exactly how many hairs are on your head. He loves YOU. Take the Bible as a personal love letter, just for YOU. He loves you with an everlasting love. All He asks is that you receive Him, a free gift, so you will have eternal life with Him and other Christians in heaven.

-Our Part.... cross
"Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven." [Matthew 10:32-33 NASB]

If you are already saved, then we have work to do. "Go and tell [others] what I have done, that where I am, you may be also."

--Max Lucado

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]