So there are 3 different definitions for the word "miracle"...does that mean that there are 3 different kinds of "miracles" that exist each being on a different level of wonder and marvel!?! I thought back over the 29 yrs of my life and GOD actually brought to mind 17 “miracles” some directly dealing with me or some that were “miracles” having to do with a loved one. Either way I witnessed them! I am going to share a few of these "Miracles" with you:
1) My Conception: I thought best to start at the very beginning. I know you are probably wondering where am I going with this as most people would say that every child is indeed a "Miracle" a gift of GOD (and agree). But my story actually starts before I was even conceived!! My mom was pregnant with her first, a child they believed to be a boy and who they named Michael David. He was due May 15, 1982 but my parents suffered a miscarriage with Michael and instead he died September 26, 1981. In Nov 1981 my parents both awoke from having the same dream..a dream foretelling them that they'd conceive again in Jan 1982. And true to their dream they did indeed conceive in Jan 1982 and by May 15, 1982 (Michael's due date) they were 4 months pregnant with me only for me to be born Sept 26, 1982, exactly a year to the day when they loss Michael. Do people have miscarriages?...yes! Do they conceive and carry a child when they should have been pregnant with a child they had loss earlier?...yes!...But how many people's conception or very existence is foretold before the stick turns blue let alone before they're even "conceived"!?! And if Michael had been born...I wouldn't be here. Which has often caused me to ask GOD...”Why me"?? But clearly there is a purpose to my existence that only I can fulfill and Michael I guess had fulfilled his during his short pre-born life.
2) Head injury: When I was a teenager I was playing around with some of my guy friends doing cart wheels and back bends. When my guy friend who was spotting me removed his hands and my forehead hit the cement floor pushing back into my spine causing my spine to move out of place and causing my forehead to swell out. But by the grace of GOD the MRI revealed no damage...no damage of any kind!! A head injury that should have left me either brain damaged or paralyzed. Head injuries are a serious thing even minor head injuries less severe than mine have caused permanent and life altering damage for its victims. Yet my head hasn't and continues to not impair me from doing everything I did before my injury. I’m not trying to make light of that difficult time with my head injury because it was scary and caused severe migraines & pain but even during that time of the unknown…GOD was still there and is still good!! That injury was over 10 yrs ago and I still continue to be completely healthy. How can this not be a "miracle"!?!
3) Horrific Car Accident: I have 2 family members that have been in bad car accidents. The first one was hit while on his motorcycle. He was killed and brought back to life...but because of the lack of oxygen to his brain he does have some brain damage and to this day hasn't been the same since before the accident. Now the other one was driving his friend’s car home after a late night of partying and totaled the car when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed the car into the cabled median on the highway. The crashed car was actually suspended in air by the cables. And yet he walked away unharmed not a bruise or scratch was found on him. The doctors and police officers all said it was a "miracle" he was alive!..But unfortunately this September 1st will mark the 1 yr anniversary of when my good friend; Dirk was killed in a car accident, when a driver on the other side of the road swerved into his lane killing him…
I don't know why some die and some live...why some are spared and others become victims. I think I have probably asked GOD "Why" more than any other question. But after making a list of all the miracles he's given me in my life...I realized that He is more than capable of rescuing me from eviction. And at a time when I've been harping on all the times GOD didn't save me...I need to remember all the times He did!! I think the waiting period can be long and hard and difficult at times to trust Him...But how can I not trust Him!?! When I look back at the "miracles" and see all the good He has done in my life. I have to ask myself, "What more does He have to do to show me...to prove to me He is trustworthy"!?!...
And the answer should be NOTHING, because even if He hadn't have performed all these "miracles" in my life He did perform one of the greatest one's known to mankind...Dying on the cross and rising from the dead! Him dying for you and me is truly enough for us to know HE is indeed trustworthy!!!
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