I feel like a lot of my posts center around the principle of cause and effect. A cause being something that produces an event or a condition and an effect being what results from that event or condition. I believe that most of life and its happenings exist within the realm of cause and effect. For example, suppose someone smokes a cigarette daily for twenty years (cause), a likely effect will be that they will suffer from lung cancer. Understanding cause and effect, helps us align our actions to the possible reactions in whatever form that may be. Yet, there are those few times when knowing fully well what the consequences of certain actions (whether ours or not) may be, events take a different, unexpected, rare turn. Assuming that the result is good, some may call this being fortunate, others may more accurately refer to this as a miracle.
People all over the world, across different belief systems can all agree on one thing about miracles; That they are unusual. While we all have different views about what constitutes a miracle or not, I believe that we can all say that when a miracle happens, it’s not something that we are used to. It’s quite often extraordinary to say the least.
At some point in our lives, we all need a miracle. Some people realize their need for a miracle earlier on in their lives than others, but eventually, we all encounter a situation or event that we cannot get on the other side of without a miracle. I cannot remember the first time I realized my need for a miracle, but I do know that it was way before I understood what exactly it was, or how the concept of miracles worked.
The concept of cause and effect illustrates the natural order of how things function on earth. Therefore, it would be correct to say that miracles are supernatural because they interrupt or go against how things are in the natural. This explains why miracles are often times if not always unexplainable. No one knows what happens to the natural order of things when miracles happen. The effect and cause of things seem to exist separately and independently. I guarantee that every time a miracle happens, there is great shock that exists among the people that experience it.
I come from a belief system that believes in real life miracles as a result of the divine intervention of God. I understand, as a believer of Christ, that not all believers have the same stance on miracles as I do. I believe God is the reason for all good and extraordinary things that happen here on earth. I also believe that if we are ever in need of a miracle, He is the miracle worker so we must go to Him.
In the two decades that I have walked this earth, I have seen quite a lot and been in situations that have left me feeling helpless and hopeless. And of course, some of these situations have left me feeling desperately in need of a miracle. What’s funny is that in my need, I quite often feel undeserving of divine intervention, especially when I know fully well that my situation would have been different if I acted differently in the beginning. I am prone to carrying the guilt of not being a good steward of my time, energy, resources and life with me wherever I go.
This bad habit, I call it, sometimes makes me hesitant to approach God with my request because in all honesty, I think there are bigger problems in this big world. I also think there are people with greater needs. I am often tempted to believe that my requests are too small for a big God if that makes sense. Yet, I am also aware that He explicitly tells us to make our requests known to Him. The spirt is willing, my flesh however is weak.
I don’t know where you are in your life right now and what the climate of your heart is at the moment, but you may be like me, and you just really need a miracle. There are times when strength and perseverance can carry us to the other side of life’s happenings but there’s other times when it’s just not enough.
I aim to write my blog posts with the intention of finding how I can help others navigate life by giving a perspective of how I have or how I am currently navigating it myself. This one is one of those that is a bit more uncertain, where certainty in my content is concerned. It’s definitely not a prescription, even though the ones that feel like prescriptions need to be taken with a pinch of salt too. This one is more like an expression of my heart. A humble confession. A vulnerable exposition.
It’s one that I’ve put out when I don’t have anything in my drafts to fall on. I am currently 19 minutes late in posting this but I think the fact that this is what came out of my heart when I started typing, reveals where I’m at currently. And though I don’t like the awkwardness that comes as a result of being vulnerable, It’s something that I have to live with today. I know this is different from how I typically end my posts. For today, I don’t have any advice. This is all I have, and I hope in some miraculous way, big or small, it has been helpful to you.
God be with you now, and forevermore.
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