Israel’s existence is a miracle. There’s really not other way to explain how the Jewish state of Israel could have been reborn. Political coincidence, divine intervention, a miracle, or a political development in light of the prophetic promises? During the last year of the war, people repeatedly encouraged me, saying things like, “Don’t worry, God is in control, you will win.” I am convinced of this, too. But what does it mean in everyday life that “God is in control” and performs miracles? It always reminds me of David Ben-Gurion’s saying: “Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.”
I have found that Christians, in particular, tend to use the term “miracle” to mean something supernatural. But that isn’t necessarily the case in Jewish life. What happens is much more likely to have natural causes. Regarding the war, Israeli media have reported miracles several times. Could it be that God uses natural people to perform supernatural feats?
How do words become tangible miracles? What is a miracle anyway? Such questions...
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Back in the year 2,000, I came down with something and was rushed to the hospital in sepsis. My body core temperature was 108 degrees. My blood pressure was 56 over 40, should I have been alive still? My body was swollen to over twice my normal size by IV’s putting fluid in me to keep my blood pressure up.I had blankets with cold water running through them wrapped around me to get my body core temperature down. After three days the doctor over the seventeen doctors working on me, told my wife and daughter, “we do not have a clue as to what is keeping him alive,” my daughter, a kids minister at the church we were attending said, we do. There were around 600 people praying for me, was that a miracle? I am still here, I also have grand kids and great grand kids. Something I didn’t have any thoughts about having when in Vietnam, the docs said they thought I might have something related to agent orange because they could not find anything related to the knowledge of human illnesses at that time. Miracles happen all the time, we just aren’t fully aware of when it happens, if we were they might not be a miracle.