We don't need any miracles. The children of Israel wandered for 40 years in the wilderness being fed by manna from heaven. Their clothes never wore out and God provided for them. They experienced miracles every day just picking up the manna and having enough to eat. It didn't do them any good.
Why specifically do we need miracles? What has God not given us that we feel we need a miracle? I'm not trying to be mean but just think about this for a moment. What would we like God to do for us at this very moment? Cure a sick child of cancer? Part the Red Sea? Help me to win the Power Ball? (That would be a miracle!)
These are all external things that will NEVER change the heart or soul. They will not open up the ears to hear or the eyes to see. Only the miracle of the Holy Spirit can do that and, unfortunately, we no longer see this as a significant miracle-or at least no longer acknowledge this is God's doing and not our own choice. Personally, if the choice comes down to parting the Red Sea or opening up the ears of ONE sinner so they'll come to Christ, I'd would choose the latter miracle.
Indeed, the Pharisees witnessed miracle after miracle, witnessing the healing of a paralytic man yet attributed the "miracles" of Christ to Beelzebub.
Miracles do not change anyone. Only God can give the new heart, new spirit and new life promised in Ezekiel 36.
Amen, Harley. God knows what we need before we even ask for it. And again, it all comes down to trusting in Him and in His word."I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." -- Psalm 37:25
I do agree with Quix that Christians need to keep their eyes and ears open for any incoming mortar fire as we've been told to expect it.
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." -- John 16:33
However, God will always be our fortress; we should have no fear of the future because it is by His will for His glory, every jot and tittle of it. As Christians, we can expect joy with the morning that is Jesus Christ.
"Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness" -- Psalm 30:11
Clearly . . .
God disagrees with that assertion . . .
He disagrees plainly in Scripture.
And He overtly disagrees daily in the lives of countless administers of His Power and Miracles and more keenly and to their great thankfulness--in the lives of the needy desperate for a mighty touch by His Great Hand.
Cheeky denial of their need and desperateness for His touch AND OF HIS EAGERNESS TO MEET THEIR NEEDS--throughout the church age . . . is more than a LOT sad. It's outrageous--on a par with the Disciples trying to keep the children away from Jesus.
You say “we don’t need miracles,” but the whole of your well-worded post proves that we do! (;