The Real Miracle

The New Testament ransacks the universe for comparisons that will be adequate to describe what has happened to us when we became God’s children. And the only two possible comparisons are the creation of the universe at the beginning and the resurrection of Jesus on the third day. So Paul says the same God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shone in our hearts. And the same God who raised the Lord Jesus from the grave and broke its bondage over Him has raised us in Jesus into newness of life...I tell you it is something when a man can only find a parallel in creation to what has happened in his own soul. And this is the majesty of the Gospel of God.1The continuation of the Christian life is also a miracle. When I was a very young believer, a friend said to me, "It's a miracle that we desire to come together with the church to worship God each Sunday." I thought about that statement for months. At first, I wasn't sure that I agreed with it. However, as the years have progressed, as I have been the recipient of God's supernatural power and grace to restore and preserve me and as I have now been in pastoral ministry for nearly a decade, I believe it to be absolutely true. The same God who commanded the light of the knowledge of His glory in the face of Jesus Christ to shine into the darkness of our hearts in conversion is the same God who continues to make the resurrection power of Jesus to work in our lives (Ephesians 1:18-20). This is the real miracle. May God continue to do this miracle in the lives of men and women in the church and in the world through the preaching of the Gospel. 1. An excerpt taken from Eric Alexander's 1984 Urbana talk on Ephesians 1:1-14.
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