In search of a pattern I studied every miracle reported in the Bible, every appearance by God, every word that God spoke. I concluded that much of our current disappointment comes from an expectation that God will act in the same spectacular ways today. We too want to hear God’s voice from a bush ablaze, to have our diseases healed and our relatives resurrected. We read the rousing stories from the Bible, hear stirring sermons about them, pray in faith — and don’t get the same results.
