Maybe the miracle you're waiting on has already occurred

​Why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles?

That's the question posed at the beginning of the new Elevation Worship song: More Than Able.

Why DO I talk myself out of seeing miracles?

As I've meditated on that song and those words this week, I've been confronted with the reality of just how frequently I do just that. Talk myself out of miracles. And for Christians, it's possible that not believing in miracles may rank up there with not loving God and each other as the most un-Christian thing we can do.

If you are a Christian, you believe we were created from dirt. You believe Christ died and then rose from the dead. You believe Christ ascended into heaven and yet at the very same time stayed behind to live within us as our greatest source of life.

That's just a few of the miracles that are the foundation of the Christian belief.

I'm not saying everyone believes that. I'm not even here to talk anyone into believing it. I am here to say that if you do believe it - like I do - then it makes it a bit absurd - counter-Christian - to talk myself out of miracles.

I suppose I do it because I begin to doubt what God CAN do more than I believe in what he's already done. I suppose I do it because I begin to feel such a sense of urgency about the miracle I want in my life right now that I quit standing on the confidence of the miracles God's already done.

And been doing all along.

When I sit here and reflect this morning on just one single truth about my life:

I. Am. Here.

My life begins to scream out "More Than Able."

When I think of all the times I just knew I wasn't able to go on, and didn't want to yet somehow did - I think of miracle worker.

You may not get this, but I do: someone rising from the dead isn't so unfathomable to a man who many days feels like he himself has risen from the dead. The greatest miracle known to man loses its mystique when you feel like you yourself are the greatest miracle known to man.

So why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles?

Increasingly, I do not. Increasingly, I am reminded as the words in the song say:

You are more than able.
Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

There are days, I confess, when I do still deny. But sitting here writing this morning I know I'm the last man on earth who SHOULD deny.

Now I see all that I have
And I've got my confidence back
I'll put my trust in the one who still does miracles
You do miracles

Sometimes when we're doubting the miracle worker, it's because we're looking ahead and we don't see the miracle coming our way. Maybe do what I've done this morning.

Look behind. Look behind and see the one who is more than able.

Maybe the miracle you're looking for has already taken place.