"Miracles and Coincidence"

And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”  - Luke 5:26

In Matthew 16 verses 1-4, church leaders ask Jesus for a miracle so that they might believe.  Jesus refuses their request.

I think maybe there are a lot of people who feel like, without seeing a miracle themselves, they cannot believe in God.  I chuckle at that and ask them to look harder.

Think for a minute about life.  Our biology classes teach us that two cells (an egg and a sperm) unite, and then from that they divide and divide until they create a person.  Some cells migrate to form eyes, some a heart, some hair, some fingers and toes.  From just those two tiny cells we get stem cells, and blood cells (both white and red), muscle cells, skin cells and many, many more types of cells – all doing their own very unique jobs.  Not a miracle?  Heck, I think every time a child is born it is a miracle!

Or consider Earth hurtling through the universe.  It is perfectly tuned for life with fundamental constants and quantities that have been dialed to an exceedingly narrow life permitting range.  If any one of these numbers was altered even a little, no life could exist.  See this video: Finely Tuned

In truth, miracles are ALL AROUND US, we just need to see them for what they are.  The same goes for the things we label “coincidence”. 

What if, when we experienced a "remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection" (Webster’s definition), instead of thinking, “what a coincidence”, we saw the hand of God. 

Every day God is actively working in our world, performing miracles and wonders, but Satan - who is also working, will do everything in his power to get you to cast a blind eye to it.  Don’t be fooled!

Photo of 18 week fetus – Lennart Nilsson 

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