God is active in this world in ways we do not understand and cannot explain. God’s ways are mysterious, often invisible except in retrospect. We can see where God has been, we can see evidence of his work, but the present activity is difficult to discern with certainty.
Faith is depending on the God who will do above and beyond, abundantly, all that we can ask or imagine. This is not only a statement of God’s power, it is an affirmation that God works in and through and around us–when we cannot understand, when we have prayed too small because of dwarfed expectations, when we have planned too meagerly because of lack of vision, and when we have expected too little because we humanly cannot see the way God will fulfill our hopes.
Some dislike the word miracle–reacting to abuses and false teaching in the religious world. A frequent use of the word miracle in everyday speech is to describe something beyond understanding. In this everyday use of the word, the God who is beyond our expectations and understandings will be constantly surprising us, impressing us, reminding us. Let us depend on him more fully, and in faith pray constantly for that which we cannot see nor even hope for.
God is working in our world, doing beyond our understanding. Let us worship him today in all of his glory and splendor, majesty and sovereignty. Let us not get hung up on how we will describe this supernatural working of God.
My beloved professor, Dr. Raymond Kelcy, was fond of saying: “God has not ceased working miracles, but he has taken the initiative out of the hands of men.” Today we will worship the God who is beyond us yet among us and within us!