Miracles

To have faith as small as a mustard seed is to be able to do anything through God who gives a person strength. This includes performing miracles, something which was once common. Nowadays, things are different and it’s not as common to see a miracle.

So then, what is a miracle? Simply stated, it’s a “surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine”. When speaking about miracles, it is mostly medical miracles with think of and from that definition, the question can be asked, “Why don’t we experience miracles anymore?” Perhaps it is because we know so much about the human body we take modern medicine for granted.

For example, there was a story in the “Notes and Quotes” section that talks about answered prayer requests. The one answer to prayer that struck me was about Mrs Elvin Douglass. Mrs Douglass was pregnant and she had an Rh negative blood type, meaning the makeup of her blood is absent of the Rh antigen. Without getting too scientific and geeky, having an Rh negative blood type can potentially kill the mother if the child is Rh positive. Luckily, Mrs Douglass and her child survived and were both in good health. It was stressed that Samuel Francis Douglass was born “perfectly normal and healthy in every way.”

Today, we have certain medicines that prevent death due to Rh negative blood. It is a commonplace practice to utilize these drugs now, and we just call that science. Does that mean that a miracle does not occur, or do we just call that something else? I believe that miracles still occur because we have those things now that make medicinal practices so much safer.