“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God with us).” Is7.14 NKJV
We trust God for the impossible. That is, we trust Him to work without, above and against natural means. God of course works through natural means everyday. He is processing oxygen in our lungs and food in our bellies to sustain life. He has fixed the boundaries of the oceans via gravity. Yet, God sustained Moses without food, gave Abraham and Sarah a child when they were well past the age of childbirth and kept fire from burning Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego. God uses means, but He is free to work without, above, even against them, at His good pleasure.
Such is the virgin birth, the story of Christmas, the resurrection of Christ and our own resurrection to come. Miracles are not fabricated amendments to the stories in the Bible. They are the story. They are the story because Jesus is the story of the whole of Scripture and God coming to dwell with us is nothing less than miraculous. Our hope of eternal life goes against all natural means but is made certain by a supernatural God. If God is with us, who or what can be against us? 12/11/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
