Jesus of the miracles

We do not worship God merely because He said something nice and beautiful. If that were so, today we would be worshipping a great number of men and women as gods and goddesses, just because they said and wrote beautiful things and performed great deeds. We admire and honor our great men and women, heroes and heroines but we do not worship any one of them. Our worship is only to God. We worship God for many reasons. For me, the reason, at the most basic level, is my fear of hell. I do not like the tropical heat. Therefore, it is very less likely that I would like the overheated living conditions in hell. Also, we worship God for many marvelous and wonderful things He did. And those things that He did, He did them in scales and magnitude far beyond the circle of human ability. We simply called these wonderful deeds of God miracles. Miracles, spectacular or otherwise, are His way of touching people’s lives. God without miracle is a God who does not have any ties with man. Would we have worshipped a God, though supernatural and all powerful, but has nothing to do with our lives? I doubt it. Why worship a God who turns His back on us? Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov (Brothers Karamazov) says, “Man is expected to live by faith only and not by miracles.” But miracles are the fruits of the faith. Miracles follow faith. God wants to make miracles happen. In fact, from time to time, God puts man in situation where He would show him His wondrous miracles. When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, he led them through the Red Sea. There was a way around the sea. Moses knew the way. He crossed the desert twice without having to walk on the waters of the Red sea. Then why did he not lead them by the same route he traveled before? By leading them straight to the sea, Lord was setting up His people for a miracle that they would remember for a very long time. Again, it was His way of telling the Israelites that He was with them and to put their trust in Him to pull them out of their difficulties. Our God is a God of many miracles. But as Christians, we have a much better reason to worship God than any of these miracles. That God loves us so much that He gave His only Son is a reason better than any other. I believe in the miracles of Jesus and also Jesus of the many miracles. Jesus without miracle is simply unthinkable!