Signs and Miracles

Signs and Miracles Are signs and miracles present today? One cannot demand signs and miracles of the world and of God. Such manifestations of faith occur spontaneously, of course. The Acts of the Apostles 2:22 says that Christ's manifestation of signs and miracles proved him a man of God. Yet signs and miracles are ever-present in the world today, in extraordinary as well as ordinary manifestations. To dwell in a God-created world is a miracle.

The daily acts of life, whether suspended by God in their natural laws, as in a miracle, or sustained by God in His created natural laws are both signs of his goodness and a requirement of faith. In other words, Christ used miracles and signs of wonder upon the earth, not as acts of magic, but of showing the ability of the divine to be made flesh, of being able to make the world, however fallen, still a good place in its physical as well as its spiritual essence.

For instance, in Matthew 8:23-27 Christ walked upon the water and calmed a rough sea, not as a demonstration of his supernatural ability like a magician, but of his ability to give comfort to those on unstable footing, such as the water. He could suspend natural law, and also live by its goodness. The goodness of the created world has always been demonstrated through miraculous and natural acts, that is according to the natural as well as the extraordinary will of God.

Consider how, simply by the word of God, the creation of the entire world and its physical laws and entities were established. (Hebrews 11:3). As noted in Psalms, God merely spoke, and the world was manifested in all of its physical glories. (Psalms. 33:9). Because God created the world, the world is a good place. However, individuals upon the earth do not always appreciate this intrinsic goodness, even those individuals of apparent faith, like the Apostle Thomas.

Also, those lacking in faith at times doubt God's hand in the world, because they take the goodness of God's world for granted. It is very easy to become absorbed in one's own daily affairs and activities, and to shirk the manifest wonders of the world, because of one's own daily obsessions.

But even though the types of divine actions in the form of the world's creation or of Christ changing water into wine, do not seem to be constantly and continuously duplicated today does not mean that they do not occur. Every time an individual rises from bed every day and weathers the difficulties of ordinary existence in the physical, sinning world and still accomplishes good this act is a kind of miracle.

Moreover, even if he or she is not Christ him or herself, not the highest manifestation of the divine essence made flesh, the individual still operates to the best of his or her ability in a holy fashion, and attempts to make good of the path set out for him or herself by Christ, and by God, in a created material universe, the universe of Genesis 2:1-2.

Christ as well re-made the world, through his death, infused with the divine spirit, and thus the signs and miracles, even something as simple as a baby's cry or an individual's choice to care for a stranger's child in need becomes a miracle and an act of creation, as one is participating with God's divine essence. Signs are everywhere, if only one looks, of the goodness of the world and the manifestation of Christ.

Calming an storm and walking upon the waters may be a miraculous and temporary suspension of the God-created natural laws, but that does not make the daily witnessing of these natural laws in the world more extraordinary or more wonderful in their manifest nature, even if one cannot become as Christ in terms of these physical actions. Moreover, Christ was also manifest not only in such extraordinary miracles and signs as the raising of Lazarus, for example, or the blind being given sight as.