aka SIGNS, WONDERS
- We tend to call miracles those extraordinary events that occur infrequently, but should a sunrise or sunset be considered less wondrous because of its frequency?
- Consider the physical context in which we exist. Scientists declare that we are all spinning around somewhere between the top and the side of a big ball. The speed of that spinning is about 600 miles an hour in the continental United States. While spinning, that ball is simultaneously circling the sun at about 66,000 mph. Simultaneously again, the solar system of which the ball is a part is moving around the Milky Way at roughly 432,000 mph. Nonetheless, you and I do not fall off or fly off the ball; neither are we even getting chapped lips from the experience. Because this wonder is happening all the time, we get dulled to it. Some highly-educated people get so dulled to it that they concoct a theory that all this stuff just happens by itself…and then everyone who fears man instead of God says, “uh huh, yeah, that makes sense.” And they all become duller in the process.
- Verses like Mk 2:12 and Jn 9:32 remind us that miracles were as extraordinary in biblical times as they are in ours. It is not the case at all that ancient people were gullible when compared to modern people.
The Duty of a Man 