God did miracles in the Old Testament, particularly around the time of the Israel people from Egypt...Then God sent His Son to earth to dwell among us and to teach us more about Himself, His Son, the Holy Spirit, and other things that we need to know...And while Jesus was on earth He also did miracles...
Do you think Jesus might have done just one of His miracles?...Did Jesus do any event in His life that was a miracle in your eyes?...Do you believe that creation is a miracle?...Can you believe that there might have been just one miracle, since the beginning of time?...Do you believe that rebirth is a miracle?...Do you then believe that birth on earth is a miracle?...If you do not believe in miracles, then do you not believe in God and Jesus?...If one believes Jesus did just one miracle, then it opens the door to limitless miracles...That is because now the laws of nature (for that one miracle), has been broken by Him...So by just this one miracle that you believe He has done, then other miracles are now possible...So I think it is fair to ask yourself, can you believe that just one miracle has ever happened in the universe, since the beginning of time?...If it has and you can believe that, then this opens the door to other and more miracles...
Jesus did many miracles in the gospels...Jesus did many miracles...He still does miracles...If you do not believe He does miracles, then you do not believe in Him...And there are those people who believe in miracles and those who do not...Those who do believe in miracles have a much larger world and live in a larger world than those who do not believe in miracles...This is because some people have excluded God and His Son as well as the miracles they have done...
If we observe His miracles, we see He did many miracles out of compassion...His miracles were also not done for personal show or for Himself...He did not do random miracles or miracles for show...Each of His miracles took place in and around the events of where He was living His life...If He did not do His miracles in the four gospels, He probably would have fewer believers...He healed to help those who were ill or the parents of those ill, or the friends of those who were ill...He healed the blind, so they could see, He healed crippled and lame people so they could walk again, and He did many miracles out of compassion...Maybe all His miracles were done out of compassion and LOVE...
He calmed the raging, stormy sea to calm the fear of His disciples...He walked on water to get to them and tried to teach Peter, that he too could walk on water, if his faith was strong enough...These are His miracles of nature...
Jesus great healings were signs and miracles...They were a sign that He is the Messiah...His miracles show us the authority God has given Him...His miracles show how close He is to God...
A royal official's son was dying in Capernaum, while the father (the royal official) sought out Jesus...The son was not with the royal official...The royal official was in Cana, while the boy lay sick in Capernaum...Jesus tells the royal official that we as people need to see miraculous signs and wonders or we will "never" believe (in Him)...“Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”...Jesus uses the words "never believe"...Anyone close to the royal official would have heard this...But I don't think we take this statement as serious as Jesus who said it, He wants us to think about this statement...But I think Jesus had to do miracles for us to believe in Him...Otherwise He would have never used the words never believe...
So our faith may need miracles...It may take the miracles of the Old Testament and New Testament to believe...But even seeing miracles does not always bring us to faith...Faith needs miracles, but seeing a miracle or miracles do not necessarily give us faith...Many Pharisees got to see Jesus do miracles and many of them, but they did not have faith or put faith in Him...So they did not believe in Him...And yet they personally got to see His miracles...
So to continue this thought, if Jesus did not do His miracles, and did no healings, would we believe He was the Son of God?...Do we really need His miracles for our faith?...Would our faith be less without any miraculous signs and wonders?...I think this is a great question...And I think the answer is "yes"...Yes, we need miracles to believe...Our faith might be diminished, without His miracles -and the way He did them...Jesus is right in saying we need miracles (how can He be wrong by saying that Jesus is right)...We need signs...St. John writes us in chapter six, verse thirty two, they asked Him, “What miraculous sign then will You give that we may see it and believe You?...What will You do?...Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”...We want miracles...It seems we need miracles...Life it seems on a regular basis as we live it out, brings up different doubts...Our faith can weaken over time...We want more evidence, more miracles, and a personal miracle would be nice...It seems, we want miracles to hold on to -to believe...
Jesus tells the royal official that he may go, and his son would live...The man had faith in Jesus...But I bet he wanted Jesus to go and look at his son...But the official took Jesus at His Word and departed...The official's servants met him on his way back to Capernaum...The official's servants meet him and tell him his boy is better, his fever has broken...The official asks what time did he start getting well, and he learns it is the exact time Jesus said, "Your son will live."...So the royal official and all his household believed...St. John said this was the second miracle Jesus performed coming from Judea to Galilee...
Because of the royal official's son's illness, he sought out Jesus...His whole household becomes believers...He and his household are better for this...The father and sick son were not together...They were miles apart...When we need Jesus, distance and time are of no consequence for Him...The royal official, to our knowledge, is not a Jew...Jesus helps everyone who seeks Him...Jesus shows compassion...He is Divine and is our Savior...And He can do miracles...
Jesus did miracles, but does not want our basis for faith to be about miracles, and the foundation of our faith to be about miracles...Jesus, when ask if He is the Messiah (and the listeners wanted to be told plainly), He answers I did tell you but you do not believe...The miracles I do in My Father's name speak for Me (John 10:24-25)...
Jesus did His miracles on earth two thousand years ago...His miracles has drifted somewhat being two thousand years ago, and we are removed from them...Much time has passed...I expect the Disciples were always being surprised and stunned by His different types and many miracles, He did...They were eyewitnesses to His miracles...But for us (I think) the old miracles have drifted somewhat...But I think even if we are given one personal current miracle, that that miracle might might drift too...That personal miracle might drift from us, and later we would want another miracle...We may now think that the one miracle was only a coincidence...We would hold on to it in our hearts, and it would be in our faith, but has it grown our faith to where we need it...I think God really does not like to do a lot of miracles...He lets the Natural Laws He set up during creation work now as they did then...And maybe all His miracles are done very and so subtly, so we do not realize He is doing them...A coincidence maybe a miracle...I personally think many miracles are done through the indwelt Holy Spirit...But all this being said, we still hang on to those miracles that are two thousand years old, and they are very much a part of each of our faith in Him...Believers and people of faith, believe in miracles...Jesus' followers built their faith in Him over His many miracles...The New English Translation of the Bible says, "Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book...But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name (John 20:30)...
Can one disregard one miracle and not believe in Him?...Can others disregard all His miracles and not believe in Him?...If one does not believe in Jesus' miracles, then do they also disregard all of the writings and true history of this Man?...In this sense of questions like these, Jesus and the belief in Him is related to His miracles...
We know Jesus did many great miracles...A great miracle was done to turn water into wine...A great miracle was done to calm a raging storm...A great miracle was done to heal a blind man, who was blind from birth...He also did a great miracle with the raising of Lazarus...He told His disciples that when Lazarus died, you should be glad that I was not there...Because now you will (see and) believe (John 11:14-15) in the raising of the dead...Jesus said this to show His disciples, there are even greater miracles to come...There are some miracles greater than His earlier ones...And His greatest miracle of all, is the one of His resurrection...When He tells Martha "I AM the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25), He means it...After Jesus' death His Disciples were behind locked doors not knowing what to do...But Jesus came back for forty days after His earthly death and gave them convincing proofs that He was somehow still living...His resurrection gave His Disciples the faith they needed to continue His work after He ascended to heaven...His resurrection was a miracle the Disciples needed, and it is a miracle the world needed...
To believe in Jesus, we must believe in His miracles...Jesus' miracles give us hope...