Michael Green writes:

'The miracles are pictures of what Jesus offers to do in the human heart. His opening the eyes of a blind beggar, Bartimaeus, is a picture of the new vision He offers to us all. His healing of paralyzed people is a picture of the new power He makes available to those who put their lives in His hand. His turning of water into wine shows how He can change the ordinary drudgery of life into high-octane living. His feeding of the multitude shows how He longs to be the bread that satisfies the believer's heart. His raising of Lazareus from the grave points to His ultimate offer: to give new and eternal life to all who trust themselves to Him. That is one of the main reasons why Jesus worked miracles. He wanted to make concrete before the imaginations of His contemporaries (and their successors) the spiritual revolution He was (and is) longing to bring about in their lives.'

It is a basic fact of God's operational plan with man that, though He will accept anybody who will come to Him seeking mercy and salvation in Jesus just as they are, He will immediately begin changing them into the people He wants them to be. He will make the thief honest, the hater loving, the hard and cold person loving, kind, and forgiving. Through the Presence and power of His Holy Spirit He will - day by day, step by step, issue by issue - changes us into the image of Jesus. And I believe that the first thing He begins to change is our desires in this whole process. He makes us who - in our natural, sinful state want nothing more in life than our own way - to want more and more to be like Christ -finally, at whatever cost. That is a revolution indeed.

Posted by Steve Mounts at 9:38 AM

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