‘Asking’ for Miracles: There are miracles for the taking just beyond our ‘understanding’
Admonished in Scripture not to seek sign and wonders for the sake of seeing proof that God still moves, does God still reach out to his children? He does.
These are days of disquietude. Admonished by the Scriptures themselves not to request signs and wonders, where are Christians to find the solace they seek?
Has God forgotten us? Does He remember his people and the mountains of terror they face? Where, in this world of confusion, is He?
God has never turned His back on His people. His love is all encompassing and ever present. He is unfailing in His pursuit of the companionship of His children and He seeks only their good.
And we, made in His image, seek the goodness, the love, the compassion, the holiness and the just that is God — personified in our Lord, Jesus Christ.
There are trustworthy places to turn for guidance. Among them, are teachers who have passed the ‘test of time’ and stayed true to the teachings of Jesus. One that provides an informative approach to Scriptural study is InTouch.Org, which offers a 24/7 study tool in the form of an ad free forum in which you can listen to one Bible study after another.
If you’re inclined toward studying [and we’re admonished to do so] you won’t be disappointed. https://www.intouch.org/listen/charles-stanley-radio
Other tools are in the form of books: If you aren’t up to speed on Christian apologetics, do check out ‘The Case for Christ’ by Lee Strobel. This amazing study in Scriptural evidence is a fascinating trip into the past without a lot of embellishment: taking fictitious liberties with Scripture is never a good idea.
Strobel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the evidence put forth by the Biblical authors themselves and effectively presents completely plausible explanations for why things happened the way that they did and how the reactions of the disciples and others illustrates events the typical reader might miss.
In so doing, Strobel brings the reader along on an investigative path he, himself walked as he sought to discern whether or not the events depicted in Scripture actually happened or — as he previously suspected — the Bible was the ancient equivalent of a ‘hoax’ never meant to be taken literally.
C. S. Lewis also famously set out to prove that the Scriptural texts were nothing short of a fictional account of a life that represented the hope of human beings to believe themselves immortal instead of accepting that they were mere mortals living transient, temporary lives that quickly end, leaving little in their wake of any real significance.
Lewis’ studies are impeccably precise and challenge even the most astute ‘unbeliever’ to reconsider his position — at least in theory, raising the bar amongst Biblical professors and authors to an entirely new level.
