Greatest Miracle of All

Wonders beyond imagination wrap God like a mantle. He puts them on and takes them off as He pleases. It is not surprising that the heavens are His handiwork or that He feeds the sparrow. What staggers the imagination is His willingness to fellowship with a creature like me.

This is not some “poor me” bit of bemoaning the state of man or this specimen in particular. I like me and value my own company no matter what others say. In fact, I probably like me better than anyone who knows me. So, where’s the mystery? I’m God’s creation as much as the lilies or the birds--right? You bet I am.
However, there is one big difference between me and a sparrow. Okay, there’s more than one. I’m trying to make a point here so chill. The difference is that the lilies and the sparrows have never rebelled against God. The devils and man are the only creatures in all creation to share that distinction. If men believe in devils at all, they readily accept as just their fate. When it comes to ourselves, most people just don’t make the connection. Man is no less guilty. Man believes God bent on deception to keep us from being as gods ourselves. Like the devil, we still want to exercise the right to decide what is good and what is evil. “Why should ye be stricken any more?  ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

Of all the miracles possible God chose to forgive and fellowship with rebels like me. It is the greatest of wonders.

“ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

“ But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”