What keeps me from seeing more miracles in my life? - Miracles - TouchPoints

Exodus 8:17-19So Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded them. When Aaron raised his hand and struck the ground with his staff, gnats infested the entire land, covering the Egyptians and their animals. All the dust in the land of Egypt turned into gnats. Pharaoh’s magicians tried to do the same thing with their secret arts, but this time they failed. And the gnats covered everyone, people and animals alike. “This is the finger of God!” the magicians exclaimed to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard. He wouldn’t listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

We won’t see a miracle if we are too stubborn to believe a miracle can happen today or if we think God won’t perform one on our behalf. Even Pharaoh’s magicians saw this miracle as an act of God, but Pharaoh was too stubborn to admit it. He convinced himself this couldn’t be from the hand of God. When we get rid of pride and stubbornness, we will be surprised to see how much God is doing in our lives that we have never noticed before.

Exodus 16:2-3There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron. “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”

Numbers 14:1-4Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”

The Israelites saw more grand-scale miracles during the Exodus than perhaps any other generation in Israel’s history; yet they doubted God’s provision and complained about his instructions. They even wished they could go back to slavery in Egypt! Ingratitude and bitterness can blind us even to God’s greatest miracles and blessings.

Job 38:33-35“Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth? Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?”

Psalm 106:2Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough?

Psalm 139:13-14You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Romans 1:20Ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

Colossians 1:17He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

We may think a miracle is always a dramatic event like a dead person coming back to life. But God’s hand is at work all around us—in ways maybe not as dramatic as the parting the Red Sea but no less powerful. The birth of a baby, healing an illness, the earth’s awakening each spring, salvation by faith alone, the work of love and forgiveness to change someone, hearing the specific call of God in our lives. These are just a few. If we think we have never seen God’s power at work, we need to look closer. He is active all around us.