And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles. And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust.
Moroni's indictment of our generation is unassailable. If miracles appear to have ceased among us, it us not because God has lost his power or changed his modus operandi. It can only be because we don't believe him anymore. If a person of true faith lives on the earth, God will work miracles in and through that person's life.
To be clear, faith is not restricted to Latter-day Saints, nor does every Latter-day Saint possess faith. The full power and authority of the holy priesthood resides in the Restored Church, but God works in every life to which he is invited and sought after. No one group of people has a lock on God's love.
Despite that fact, few people today believe in miracles. They believe in science, which they can touch, and attribute the rest to coincidence, luck, or the average of large numbers. They may as well live in the dark ages, where every phenomenon was attributed to witchcraft, the devil, or the alignment of the stars and planets.
The antidote for living in the world without God is to choose faith and seek after him in trust. God truly has given us many scientific and technological miracles (which we, by the way, ascribe to our own brilliance and still ignore God's hand in the discoveries of laws of which he has always been the Master). These blessings he has given us out of love in spite of our weakness because he doesn't want to see us wallow in darkness. Yet he has so much more to offer! And so God waits for a glimmer of faith among us. If we can muster even the tiniest hope or a mustard seed of faith, God will nourish it and cultivate it and help it spring up unto a tree that bears fruit. And that fruit will be miraculous.
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