When we just don't see it

AsI read Psalm 106 recently, I was struck by the words of the Psalmist as he confessedthe sins of his ancestors in prayer to God because they “gave no thought to your (God’s)  miracles” and they failed to “remember your(God’s) many kindnesses.”

I’vebeen reflecting on how I sometimes do these very same things.

Wecan easily highlight a few of God’s obvious kindnesses to us but we might betempted to say that we  don’t often see miracles.

And yet we do. All the time. At least we have the opportunity to seethem.

C.S.Lewis once wrote, “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very samestory that is written across the whole world in letters too large for some ofus to see.”

Inother words, we live in a miracle—a huge miracle of creation. And into that creation God sent himself asa miraculous tiny baby. It ‘s a huge story that we celebrate this time of year,but we forget the wonder of it. This God in human flesh is a tale so giganticthat we stop seeing it. We reduce it to something rendered in plastic that wehang on a tree or hear as song lyrics piped into our lives like elevator musicthat we simply tune out.

Wouldn’t it be great if we asked God to open our eyes once more thatwe could really see this miracle he’s done? Maybe see it as we never havebefore.

I have a tee shirt that I wear this time of year that has a silhouetteof the nativity figures on the front and above the image are two simple words—“TrueStory.”

This miraculous true story should be something to which we give muchthought.

Let’s do it together. 

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