I want to believe in miracles. Don’t you? I want to believe in the miraculous hand of God, don’t you? I want to believe that the supernatural is still available and at our fingertips. Don’t you?
Could it be that there are so few miraculous healings because there are so few of us who really believe God is still alive? Is it possible that even those of us who believe in God still have a hard time convincing ourselves that He is still in the miracle working business?
Would He even BE God if He could not do the miraculous?
In the past weeks I have seen the miraculous hand of God move, yet even after it occurred it was still hard for me to give credit where credit is due. In each case, I knew what I was seeing was more than a coincidence — impossible actually, but we have become so jaded that we have lost the ability to BELIEVE.
It is actually cognitive dissonance in reverse. Cognitive dissonance is common in the world today. It is the inability to believe what your eyes see. For instance, believing you can smoke cigarettes and not have it affect you is ...