Are you looking for a Christmas miracle?

 Did you read about the 17 missionaries who escaped their captors in Haiti? It is nothing short of a Christmas miracle! The group, including women and children, walked out in the middle of the night, following the stars to freedom.

We all exclaim and shake our heads in amazement. It is a beautiful story that fills us with the hope that miracles still exist.

A quote by Dane Ortlund from his book, “Gentle and Lowly” really stood out to me after reading about this daring escape. He writes, “We tend to think of the miracles of the Gospels as interruptions in the natural order. Yet German theologian Jurgen Moltmann points out that miracles are not an interruption of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. We are so used to a fallen world that sickness, disease, pain and death seem natural. In fact, they are the interruption.” 

We see miracles as extraordinary, but what if God intended them to be the natural order of things? 

We see miracles as extraordinary, but what if God

intended them to be the natural order of things? 

Christmas is all about miracles. It started with the miracle of God Himself, initiating His redemption plan for a broken world. God taking on the form of a baby to rescue us from ourselves sounds farfetched. But then again, isn’t that what a miracle is?

The dictionary describes a miracle as “a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.”

Our finite minds can not understand some things, and that is where faith steps in—faith to believe that miracles still exist and that God is a God of miracles. 

The first Christmas represents the greatest miracle of all; Immanuel, God with us!

Are you looking for a miracle this Christmas? Look closely at the Baby in the manger.