As written and presented by Mary Whelchel

PROGRAM D-6079

Jesus performed many miracles during his three-year ministry, but he didn't perform the same miracle for everyone, and he didn't always perform the same miracle in the same way. Our God still wants to perform miracles in our lives, but we have to understand that he does it when he knows it is good for us, and he does it in his way, not ours.

In the Bible we are told of four different ways that Jesus made a blind person to see. In Matthew 9 he touched the eyes of the two blind men who came to him, and immediately they could see. In Mark 8 he took the blind man outside the city and spat directly on his eyes and put his hands on him. The first time his sight was only partially restored, so Jesus put his hands on him a second time, and his sight was completely restored.

In Mark 10 he simply told the blind man to 'Go, your faith has healed you.' So without a touch of any kind, the man received his sight immediately. And then in John 9 Jesus made mud by spitting on the ground, and he put the mud on the eyes of the blind person. Then he told him to go wash the mud off in the Pool of Siloam. After he did that, he could see.

Now, why Jesus chose to meet the needs of these blind people in such different ways, I do not know. But it teaches us that he does things differently for different people at different times. In one case, it was a miracle in two-parts; didn't happen all at once. In another, the blind man had to do something: go wash the mud off his eyes, so he was involved in the miracle. Sometimes Jesus touched them, sometimes he didn't. But in every case, the result was a miracle: they could see.

When you need a miracle from God, don't limit him as to how it can happen. Maybe you've seen a partial answer to prayer, but you wonder if he's forgotten to complete the job. He hasn't; remember the blind man who was healed in two steps. God may ask you to do something in order to make the miracle happen; that's like the man who washed the mud off his eyes. Don't refuse to be a part of the miracle, if that's the way God wants to work for you.

But don't be afraid to ask for and expect a miracle from God. He wants to meet our needs in miraculous ways, if we will have the faith to come to him, without preconceived ideas and answers, and simply allow him to provide the right miracle at the right time.

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