What a miracle
God works in a dialectic. A both-and.
In Jesus, God performs astounding miracles that heal and rescue. And God works redemption through the pain and sorrow that happens without the big supernatural miracles.
Top and bottom.
God is there.
Though Jesus does big miracles, the more mature he gets, the more he grows hesitant. When we encounter these big miracles, we start to see Jesus as a commodity. As something to possess. We start to want ecstatic religious experiences more than we want encounter and relationship with the living God. Soon, we don’t take God’s no for an answer (and God gives no’s just as God gives yeses). We grow resentful of God and, yes… We hang him on a cross.
We start to want ecstatic religious experiences
more than we want encounter and relationship with the living God.
But then he comes back from the dead and loves us anyway. This is what redeems the whole thing. The biggest miracle of all. Found at our lowest, most non-human moment, God comes back into this broken world and we find him on a beach. Grilling fish. And inviting us for a snack.
What a miracle.
In Joy,
Jonas+
Miraculous grace