Miracles

We all love a good, ole' fashioned miracle, don't we? Don't we just love when someone in church tells  about when they received a priesthood blessing and were miraculously healed!? I mean, if they were feeling better a few days later, that's no biggie. We want a malignant tumor to disappear or someone to be raised from the dead. When we talk about Jesus' miracles we frequently cite him healing a blind man  (Jesus healing a blind man) or causing the lame to walk  (John 5:2-9). Why do we like this so much? Because it is quite dramatic, we can't logical explain it with our finite knowledge, and it is usually something that the natural man desires. Less pain, more immediate happiness! 
But, what about all of the other miracles that are less obvious and more subtle? Being able to forgive someone...that is a miracle. Finding the right person to marry...also a miracle in my experience. I said several weeks ago that miracles would come through this experience no matter what happened. If Eli was suddenly healed from trisomy 18, that would be a miracle. We would all get up in church and bear our testimonies about the power of the priesthood. Right? 
But, Eli hasn't been healed from this. So, how can we still believe in "miracles." Did God just say: "Sorry, no miracle this time." No. One of the first blessings I received told me that I would be happy with Gods plan for Eli. That feels like it would be a miracle for me. It wasn't that I could accept it, but BE HAPPY with it. That seems kind of hard sometimes because his outcome almost certainly involves his mortal death. That doesn't seem very happy. So that seems like it will be a miracle because it is quite dramatic and we can't explain it with our finite knowledge.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains—if moving mountains accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will. Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame—if such healing accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated.

The following is from a CES devotional talk by David A. Bednar (That we might not shrink)

"Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains—if moving mountains accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will. Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame—if such healing accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated."

There have and will be many more miracles throughout  this experience.  I think that the greatest miracles are, so many times, more inward than outward.  Miracles that change our spiritual heart rather than our physical body.