Fri Inspiration

Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt

Jesus talks about physical miracles (the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised) and then He adds this, “and the poor have good news preached to them.” Wait a minute! What is so miraculous about preaching good news? Why did Jesus put that last? I will tell you why. The greatest miracle of all that God ever does is not to heal a person’s body, but to change a person’s heart.

Suppose this morning two things happen at the end of this service. Suppose someone paralyzed from birth was suddenly and miraculously healed and started running all around this building? What if someone who was born blind all of a sudden had 20/20 vision? Suppose that another person, in perfectly good health gives their heart and life to Jesus Christ and trusts Him as their Lord and Savior? Do you know what would excite us more? The physical miracle. Do you know what we would be talking about more? The physical miracle.

When you compare the two there is no comparison. One is temporary for the person will still eventually die. The other is eternal, because now that person will live forever. The physical miracle requires only a touch from God. The spiritual miracle cost God His only Son.

That is why every time someone comes up to me and says, “Today, I received Christ as my Savior”, every time I see someone baptized in our church, every time I see a life changed simply by the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that He died for our sins, and was buried, and raised from the dead, when you ask me the question, “Do you believe in miracles?” I say, “Yes!”