For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith.
It is important for us to understand that God does miraculous things, for the world is trying to rob God of his power, or rather trying to rob us of a belief in miracles. The secular world claims that everything is knowable and explainable as a natural phenomenon or a random chance, the certainty of which is guaranteed by an unfathomably large number of random opportunities and coincidences. God, on the other hand, claims he is in control, and nothing is random happenstance. I recent saw an unusual bridge arching over I-80 in Nevada. It was a beautifully constructed archway made of cement and decorative stone. It seemed to jut out of the side of a rugged hill and fall off steeply into a canyon on the other side of the freeway. No road led to it from the mountainside, and the angle into the canyon was far too steep to be negotiated by a vehicle. Despite the fact that I could not explain the purpose of the structure, it did not for an instant occur to me that it was randomly placed where it was. And it certainly did not cross my mind that a billion years of wind and water moving sand and rock particles might have formed such a well designed and executed structure. The evidence of intelligence in design was indisputable, however unintelligible the purpose behind the structure might have been. While that bridge might have been a boondoggle to use tax money, God does not do anything as a boondoggle. He has purpose, and everything he does has purpose, whether we understand it or not. For centuries men have tried to explain what God has done, and over and over they have had to change their theories as new knowledge has come to light. Mortal man will never fully understand God's power, and so God will always be a God of miracles.
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