Miracles, Signs and Wonders.
March 12, 2017
Devotions:
One definitions of insanity is to continue to do the same thing and expect different results. We practice this many times when we want the blessings of God but we do not want to change. We want to continue to do the same things and get different results. God's ways are the ways of life and blessings, if you go contrary to His ways it is the ways of death. God wants us to choose the ways of life and blessings. God demonstrated His love to Israel by continually doing miracles for them, yet they did not change their way of thinking or of acting. They still sought after idols. The signs, wonders and miracles were meant to draw them into a revelation of God's love for them so that they would come to totally trust and be secure in His love.
When Jesus walked the earth in His three and half years of ministry, He continually did miracles of hearings and restoration of people's bodies and souls. He fed the multitude with a boy's lunch and had more in the end than when He began. He raised the dead and restored sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf and speech to the dumb. And yet some of the leaders did not allow themselves to be informed by these witnesses to the love of God. Jesus cursed three cities because there was no turning to God even with the miracles that were performed in them.
When we hear a testimony of God working in someone's life we need to first know that God is no respecter of persons and what He did for one He will do for anyone who will believe. Secondly the miracle is a demonstration of God's love for us and it is to turn us more towards Him and His love for us.
What do you do with God's miracles? God not only wants to do miracles for us but also through us for others. Are you a candidate?
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways." Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest."”
Psalms 95:6-11 ESV