I believe you Q. And I am hearing you. I don't think we're as far apart on this matter as you would believe. My point is, and continues to be, that we don't need miracles. It should not be what drives our faith. People who are desperate and need solace in their lives, should run to scripture and pray; not to anything else. Rain falls on the just and the unjust, but for Christians our Lord has promised to carry our burdens-that's all. Great strength and comfort comes through the word of God.
That being said, it cannot be denied that God does carry out miracles. But miracles really only have limited use and don't instill faith. They don't give us comfort. They're here today and gone. We rest in the promises of God that He will see us through any circumstance.
There really is Much truth in what you say.
And thanks for your kind comments and reply.
I do, however, belive that GOD HIMSELF has given a bigger place to miracles than your perspective seems to understand.
Many times miracles do either foster increased faith or trigger faith’s beginnings. I have observed this many times and experienced it some.
Certainly miracles are here today and gone tomorrow. And God still requires that WE WALK BY FAITH; the JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.
As my teen pastor used to say re feelings—we walk by faith, not by feelings—but praise God for the feelings when He sends them; they occur; they arise. I think it is much the same with miracles.
It is as though the mountaintops are for . . . vision—and without a vision, the people perish.
But we slug it out with the world, the flesh and the devil in the valleys. And it is THE LORD OF THE VALLEYS that we all must learn to walk with and submit to in the nitty gritties without the miracles.
Perhaps we are closer there, then I’d understood that we were.
I assert that miracles are evidence of the power of God and assurance comes from knowing Him. Faith is different, it is the evidence of things yet unseen.