Who Needs A Miracle?

I don’t know about you, but I could use some extreme, earth-shattering encouragement about right now to assure me that our highly-unlikely rescue is, indeed, possible. For me, for my family, for several of my friends, our churches, our city, the nation…

The good news is, this is the season for that. Spring is the time of year when we marvel that, once again, what was dead and dormant finds a way to come alive. The Christian church is observing Lent right now to prepare for Easter, when they celebrate the mysterious and miraculous cycles of birth, death, and resurrection. Starting Monday, the Jewish faith will observe Purim, the retelling of how Esther, a Jewish women (two strikes against her in the story) actually saves her people from execution by going undercover and um, befriending, the persecuting king. And starting on the 22nd of this month, Muslims will devote themselves to fasting and other spiritual practices to celebrate when the Quran was given to humanity, offering much-coveted answers to life in a world of uncertainly, pain, and chaos.

In all of these traditions, this is a time of renewal, a fresh and clean slate, and the seemingly (only seemingly, apparently) impossible bestowal of miraculous grace.

And who couldn’t use the bestowal of miraculous grace?

Yes, please.

So, whatever heaviness you’re carrying right now, whatever impossible situation you’re facing, whatever has drained every ounce of life from you, I pray that you find comfort in (1) the fact that you’re not alone, (2) we can count on miraculous provision when we need it the most, and (3) YOU are a part of that miraculous provision.

Sounds crazy, I know.

It is.

AND, its True.

“Who knows?

Maybe you were made queen

for just such a time as this…”

- Esther 4:14b

May it be so.