Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in
me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these…” Does he really expect you to work
miracles? You know that doesn’t sound right.
Look at another of His statements: “The words that I speak
unto you I speak not of myself but the Father that dwells in me, He does the
works.” Is God dwelling in you? If you have faith in Christ, the answer is
“Yes.” By His Holy Spirit He dwells in you.
Still, are you expecting miracles to materialize at your
hands? Probably not. But Christ is expecting miracles from us. The miracle God is
looking to work in our lives is love. Given our penchant for contentiousness
and division we can see how love could be considered a miracle.
The Father wants to love all of us through all of us. He
wants us to allow His kindness to flow between us. This is not a natural
tendency. Love, of course, is by its nature connected to others. Love is what we do. Isolation is what I do.
The psalmist laments of God’s people, “They limited the
Holy One of Israel.” In the New Testament we see that in one town Jesus “could
do no mighty work there.” Why not? It is said that Jesus “marveled because of
their unbelief.” To this day He is amazed at our unbelief. Like those folks of
old, we lack that faith “which works by LOVE.” More love equals more faith.
More faith equals more of Jesus doing what He does. All of us loving all of us
brings about the loving works of God among us. God moves in the stream of His
love. If we want to see Him do mighty works, we must first let Him work His
love in us.
Knowing us, that will require some forgiveness and
forbearance.
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