Miracle of Miracles.

Recently I was watching Fiddler on the Roof again, and it hit me during one song that "here was an interesting perspective to explore."

I am a sometime student of history, I find it fascinating! but for many people the subject leaves them cold.

They see History as applying to someone else, some other time, and it has very little bearing on the here and now.
Now, I know otherwise, however getting through to them might be an uphill battle!

Funny thing is that this attitude also applies with the Bible.

When we (Christians) are reading the Bible we really get into the Miracles written there.
But there are many people who will try to explain them away.
(I saw a History Channel episode once that tried to explain how wind drafts could have parted the Red sea, and I recently heard a guy try to explain that the Red sea might have actually been a river that drained into the Red sea, not the sea itself.)

People do not believe the miracles, or they try to explain them away, or they see them as being something for someone else in another time and place.

"What might have triggered this thought?"

Right after the tailor "asks" Tevya for Sidel's hand in marriage (and gets "papa's" blessing) he sings his little song "Wonder of wonders, Miracle of miracles" and I, who like to actually hear AND understand the words in a song, noticed that the tailor was naming a lot of the big miracles listed in the Torah, but the most amazing miracle of all was that, in this matter, he was heard and answered.

Now if you were to ask me (or probably any other person of faith) which was more important or impressive, the parting of the Red sea or a guy getting a wife, we would probably all say "the parting of the Red sea!".

But that was an event that was distant to him. It happened to someone else, somewhere else.
But his prayer/wish being answered was immediate! It was tangible! it was right there and real to him in a way that the parting of the Sea or the Plagues of Egypt, or even the Great flood couldn't be.

The great thing about God is that he still does those works today!

I personally have experienced some really awesome things. Some true miracles.
There are people who would say they were only coincidences but I was there and I KNOW what they were.

So I too know what it is to be blessed like that. so I would suggest to you that you watch for all the miracles going on out there, and when someone has an experience like that, don't "poo-poo" them.
Listen and rejoice!
Because it is often the little Miracles that happen every day that will first convince others of the Almighty.
Let him be real to people in a way that is personal.

This is the difference between "knowing" it in your mind and KNOWING it in your heart.

Knowing it in your heart takes you a lot further... trust me I know!