Good Monday Morning, Dear Friends,
When Jenkins Lloyd Jones became editor of the Tulsa Tribune, he had risen from a part-time reporter to this high position in only eight years. Once, while teaching a group of students in journalism, he was asked how he accounted for his meteoric career. He said that he owed it all to superior diligence, considerable natural ability, and a father who owned the newspaper.
Most of us believe that incredible things have just such a simple and human explanation. But I’m not sure. Jesus lived only thirty-three years and died a criminal. He never wrote a book, never led an army; in fact, he accomplished nothing we usually expect famous people to achieve. Yet he is by far the most influential figure in history. From our point of view, we must admit, “because it’s unknown.” Why did Adolf Hitler turn back from the shores of England when he might have held the world at bay for at least a generation? We can only write beside that chapter of history, “because it is unknown.” The record is filled with events where higher and unknown powers came to bear on the human situation.
Are our lives ever changed by miraculous events? There are a lot of answers to that question. Even doctors are at a loss to account for all of the things that happen to their patients. They admit to the existence of laws they don’t fully understand, at least in the present. Who knows but that some higher hand is at work in our lives with powers we can’t begin to fathom.
It may be that a miracle is not the suspension of natural laws, but the application of laws as yet unknown to us. I can look back across my life at some very intriguing mysteries, and I have found doors open when everyone else said they were closed. If you were to ask me today if I believed in miracles, the answer would be yes. When I consider where I came from and where I’ve been, life today is indeed a miracle. I can’t explain it, but I can only surmise that there are powers at work in this world which I don’t understand.
Based on your life experience, I wonder if you believe that, too.
The final evidence of miracles is from our own experience,
Bruce Jones, Pastor
Imagine Church
