Good Morning Garden

Jesus taught through miracles.

If the miracles did not happen, the rest of the Gospel story loses all real significance. If Jesus did not believe them to be possible, and undertake to perform them, then the Gospel message is chaotic, contradictory, and devoid of significance.

But the deeds related to Jesus in the Four Gospels did happen, and many others too, “the which, if they should be written, every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.” Jesus himself justified what peopl e thought to be a strange teaching by the works he was able to do; and he went further and said,

…the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works… (John 14:12).

Now what, after all, is a miracle? Those who deny the possibility of miracles on the ground that the universe is a perfect system of law and order, to the operation of which there can be no exceptions, are perfectly right. But the explanation is that the world of which we are normally aware, and with whose law alone most people are acquainted, is only a fragment of the whole universe as it really is; and that there is such a thing as appealing from a lower to a higher law—from a lesser to a greater expr ession. In the sense of a real breach of law, miracles are impossible. Yet, in the sense that all ordinary rules and limitations of the physical plane can be set aside or overridden by an understanding that has risen above them, miracles can and do happen.

How quickly we humans conclude that anything we can’t prove to be true is false. This perspective is how mankind believed the earth was the flat center of the universe and later that the atom was the smallest particle. As our knowledge increased, these false notions were proven wrong. In the same way, we try to squeeze God’s power, and things such as miracles, into our limited knowledge and understanding of them. Wake up, friends! All of the knowledge we possess is dwarfed by what we do not know, both in the physical and spiritual realm. It is our arrogance that leads us to judge the infinite based our limited perception. However, when we trust in God as opposed to our limited perception, we can know that we are attuned to all knowledge and understanding. Like the blind man who touched the tail of the elephant and thought it was like a snake, we too are blindfolded when limited to our knowledge and understanding. When we, through faith, transcend these limitations, God then removes the blindfold so we can see the true nature of that which we experience. It is then that miracle happen. It is then that we can find, recognize and live in the Eden God created for us.

Living the miracle,
Z gardener