February 7, 2011
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Things that can't be explained...?
I am coming back to the place of believing in the indescribable. For a long while, I think I stopped really believing in the power of God to do the miraculous, the unimaginable - the things that you can't do the math and figure out or piece together like a puzzle of rationale. I dismissed the supernatural, the miraculous ability of God to transform and change. The Christian life seemed to me to be just a matter of professing certain beliefs and then following a certain way of life. Eternal life was some time in the far future. The miracles were something in the distant past. Something really seemed to be missing though. But I just couldn't understand.
I am starting to accept again that there is this thing that can't be explained. God comes in and supernaturally alters everything. He does do that. He can do that. Life isn't just a matter of fitting into neat little formulas. There is such a thing as an unexplainable element where God breaks in and changes everything. We discover in that moment that we are not alone or on our own after all.
It's just been awhile since I've experienced God break into my life in that way, turning my water into wine. Where is that amazing transformation and incredible answered prayer? Where are his whispers of love? I stopped believing that if I wait for him, he would come. And it was because I stopped waiting that he stopped coming. It wasn't the other way around.
Comments (3)
Hm. Interesting topic, Mary Ann. I really like miracles, but I have a hard time hoping in them. I don't like to be let down.
@licoreen - the transformation of a life is a miracle. i have been having a hard time believing even in that.
@searchingfortreasures - Absolutely. And yet, you can go back in your own journals and see that God has transformed you in many ways. So you know He can do it.
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