“On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. Just then a man from the crowd shouted, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child. Suddenly a spirit seizes him, and all at once he shrieks. It convulses him until he foams at the mouth; it mauls him and will scarcely leave him. I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.” Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” While he was coming, the demon dashed him to the ground in convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. And all were astounded at the greatness of G-d.” (Luke 9:37-43)

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”  (Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation)

When we are healed from a disease or sickness, is it proper for us to consider our healing to be a miracle from G-d? Our secularized world has progressed in science and technology so far that the thought of a miraculous healing being of G-d instead of being of man is considered by many to be absurd. Yet, does not G-d work through the hands of doctors and scientists in the discovery of cures and the miracles of science? Is our current generation so faithless and jaded that we are unwilling to be astounded by the greatness of G-d? 

As Christians we believe that everything is of G-d — everything was created by G-d. G-d is in the midst of everything. Creation continues to happen all around us. So do miracles. As Lutherans we believe that Jesus heals us daily of our sins and our transgressions. Are we not to believe that all things come from G-d – including the improvements of medicines, the techniques of doctors, the compassion of emergency workers, and the power of the Holy Spirit?

Pastor Dave