The Miracles of Jesus

Chapter 33

What is a Miracle?

What is a miracle? Most people think that it is a reversal of natural action--a setting aside or overturning of what are called "the laws of nature."

This a great error. The so-called "laws of nature" are nothing else than God's ordinary way of working, so far as we are able to perceive.

But God "cannot deny himself," (2 Timothy 2:13) therefore He cannot at any time act in a manner contrary to what He does at other times. Miracles are always in perfect harmony with law, for they are God's ordinary way of working. Every act of God is a miracle. He cannot act except in a miraculous manner.

Sometimes He hastens the ordinary process, or removes the veil so that we can see some of His secret working, or shows us something that we have never seen before, and we call it a miracle.

If that same thing should be repeated before our eyes ten thousand times, however, we should probably cease to call it a miracle, and yet its nature would by no means be changed. The thing that we are accustomed to, we do not call a miracle, even though it requires nothing less than the mighty power of God for its performance.

But the miraculous is everywhere, and miracles will never cease as long as God lives, "Which does great things past finding out; yea and wonders without number." (Job 9:10)--Present Truth, October 25, 1900.