Instead, Here’s the God Who Watches and Says “There, There.”

Today I read a testimony by a blind woman who got breast cancer. She did not receive miraculous help. Her message: “Don’t think you’re invincible just because you have faith.” I’m paraphrasing.

I subscribe to Kirk Cameron’s Facebook updates, and he was the one who linked to the story from Facebook. The comments on the piece are full of approval.

I just don’t know what to say. Through Moses, God parted the Red Sea and made the water stand up in vertical walls. Through Samson, he exerted hundreds or thousands of tons of force and lifted the gates of a city out of the ground (somehow the stones stayed together). Through Jesus he called a rotten corpse out of a tomb, and it walked to him, resurrected and restored. And today I’m seeing Christians approving a story telling people not to expect too much from God!

“Faith” doesn’t mean accepting suffering as something you can’t change, while still loving God. Faith is a substance, like water or rock (Hebrews 11:1). It exists in the supernatural realm. God provides it to us when we pray in tongues, and then when we need it, it’s there, and we can send it to God to cause powerful works here on earth.

People have said God doesn’t do miracles any more, except possibly on rare occasions, through a Pope, or at Lourdes. That’s the attitude the beggars at the Pool of Bethesda had! They couldn’t make anything happen. They had to sit and wait and hope to be there when the waters moved. Didn’t the crucifixion change things at all? Of course it did. Jesus said we would do GREATER works than his. He said WE would do them, not that GOD would do them.

Christianity would still be wonderful even if God didn’t heal disease and block our enemies. God didn’t need to offer us these things in order to get us to accept salvation. But he did. And he didn’t say it was a temporary offer.

Some people cite 1 Corintians 13:8 as evidence that miracles would cease. It says:

“Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge,it will vanish away.”

It doesn’t mention miracles. And as for tongues, it refers to a time in the future, when Jesus is with us and tongues are no longer needed. When the enemy is beaten and the war is over, you don’t need to talk in code.

Human beings have a natural tendency to try to explain bad things away. The church got away from the Holy Spirit, miracles dried up, and people didn’t know why, so they decided it was God’s plan. They didn’t want to say the Bible wasn’t true, so this seemed like a better option. They made excuses for God, which is about as ridiculous as it gets. They should have been asking themselves what they were doing wrong, but the church had policy of torturing and burning people who questioned the party line.

These days they just tell you you’re a divider and not a positive thinker. They would probably burn us if they could, though.

The world is full of Christians who deny God’s power because they can’t find it. Not because it isn’t available. “If my church doesn’t have it, it must be evil.”

Tongues are still with us. Miracles are still with us, and they happen to millions of people, not just Popes and strange homeless men who wander around in robes.

It’s good to teach people to stick with God even when things go wrong, but to teach them that things will never go right…well, let me put it this way: did Jesus ever teach that? He warned people that they would be persecuted and even killed, but he didn’t say anything about living in a pattern of consistent defeat. He said he had overcome the world for us, and that it would not harm us.

Barring a word of warning from a prophet, I will always look for the best possible outcome in any situation.

Denying the miraculous is carnal. It is the DEFINITION of carnality.