No Miracle
No Miracle
And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. Mark 6:5
Question: When was the last time you saw Jesus do a real miracle? I mean the jaw-dropping, goose-bump raising, faith-strengthening and life-changing kind of miracle. How long has it been since you saw Jesus do something like that?
For many of us, it’s been way too long. It’s not that he doesn’t do them, for he does them every day. It’s rather that many of us—specifically, those of us with ample financial and material provision—aren’t ever in a position to really need a miracle. If we ever do find ourselves in need of the miraculous, we simply don’t know how to ask for it.
That’s why this verse has always bugged me. I mean, when was the last time you saw Jesus heal a sick person? And here, in this text, Mark talks about such healings almost as if they were some kind of Kingdom consolation prize.
It’s like he was saying: Yep, these people had such poor faith that Jesus only healed a few folks. It was like the healing of a few sick people was NO BIG DEAL to Mark.
And yet most of us have NEVER seen Jesus heal anyone. Never. Not once.
What does that say about our faith? If the healing of sickness in the lives of a few people represents little to no faith, then what does that say about where we are with Jesus? The Gospels and Acts paint a picture of life in Jesus’ ministry and in the Church were miracles were normal. And if that’s the case, then we’ve got some serious repenting and praying to do.
We need to repent of accepting a faith that has been reduced to the cerebral and the emotional, but not the tangible. We’ve sequestered the Holy Spirit and made faith about feeling good and getting to Heaven. We need to posture our lives in a way that require the supernatural.
And then, we need to pray and believe God for the supernatural. We need to stop settling for the best we can do. Jesus didn’t bleed and die for us to have our best; he died to give us his best.
It’s time to start living and praying like it.
*I write at length about praying and receiving miracles in my book Pray Big. Want to check it out? CLICK HERE.
