The Coffmans have arrived safely in Colorado. We have settled into my parents' house while we look for a home of our own on the south side of Denver, so I am living with my parents for the first time since moving to college in 2002. They will probably let me stay out as late as I want these days, though my mom will probably still call to check on me if I am out past dark.
I have been preoccupied with the logistics of the move and have had little time for reflection or writing. So, I am pawning off someone else's thoughts on you. I am rereading Tim Keller's book The Reason for God and here is what he has to say about miracles:
"The most instructive thing about this text [the stories about Jesus' resurrection] is, however, what it says about the purpose of Biblical miracles. They lead not simply to cognitive belief, but to worship, to awe and wonder. Jesus' miracles in particular were never magic tricks, designed only to impress and coerce. You never see him say something like: 'See that tree over there? Watch me make it burst into flames!' Instead, he used miraculous power to heal the sick, feed the hungry, and raise the dead. Why? We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming." (99)
I find that beautiful, the distinction between suspension and restoration. One day our Lord will make all things new. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
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