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Do you see what I see

Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because what the Father does, the Son also does."
- John 5:19

Miracles.

What is a miracle? General accepted notion suggests that the experience of a miracle in fact requires two conditions. First is the stability of nature, which means we must recognise that the data offered by our senses recur in regular patterns. Secondly, we must believe in some reality beyond Nature, in other words, the "super-natural". When both conditions are present, and not till then, are we convinced that a miracle has occurred. These events are not always a violation of nature, for God sometimes uses nature in unusual ways to reveal himself to humans.

Alexander Pope is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the 18th century. He once talked about the conversion of water into wine. Ravi Zacharias quoted Alexander as having said, "The conscious water, saw its master, and blushed."

I find that simple statement so beautiful, so exquisite. What a true reflection of reality! Jesus was the master. The conscious water saw him, blushed, and instantly it was transformed into wine. A miracle we say.

C.S. Lewis made an observation. In the macro view, God creates the vine and teaches it to draw up water by its roots and, with the aid of the sun, to turn that water into a juice which will ferment and take on certain qualities. Thus every year, from Noah's time till ours, God turn water into wine. That, men failed to see. In the micro view, Jesus only sped up the process when he made water into wine. In the macro view, every year God makes a little corn into much corn to feed the millions: the seed is sown and there is an increase. In the micro view, this annual wonder is sped up by Jesus when he fed the five thousand. A little bread is made into much bread. That, again, men failed to see.

The Son will do nothing but what He sees the Father do. There is, so to speak, a family style.

The miracles of healing fall into the same pattern. The magic is not in the medicine but in the patient's body. The doctor merely stimulates Nature's functions in the body, or to remove hindrances. every cut heals itself, although we speak of the inconvenience of a cut; no dressing will make skin grow over a cut on a corpse. All who are cured are cured by Him, the healer within. But once upon a time, He did it visibly, a Man meeting a man.