I’ve often thought about how quickly we read the miracles of Jesus in the gospels. I think about how I read about them and compare them to how I’ve reacted when I’ve experienced them in my life.

I realise I am too blessed to have seen miracles in my life.

I’ve seen restoration of hearing and sight, I’ve witnessed deliverances, I’ve heard stories of people walking from wheelchairs, being raised from the dead and more. Every time I have seen or heard these stories I stand with my mouth wide open, amazed at the goodness of God, and His ability to rewrite our earthly reality.

However when I read about these stories in the gospels I can nearly skip past without any reaction. Yes, I know I’ve read them before, yes, I know it’s Jesus and we expect it from Him but should we not be reacting differently? Should I be reading these accounts with the same amazement, excitement and expectation as I experience them in my own life?

One thing I would like to try is to read the gospels and the account of Jesus’ acts and try to place myself in that moment, at the scene, watching on. What would it have been like? It would have been electric. \

I think about a story like we find in Luke 7. As Jesus is walking into the city He sees a dead man being carried out of the city. We hear that he is the only son of a widow and I’m sure there is a lot of sorrow around the moment. We are told that Jesus’ heart went out to the woman and He tells her not to cry. He goes on to touch what he is being carried on and just tells the young man to get up. The Scriptures then put this as the next line;

The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother Luke 7:15

Read the nine words at the start again.

And again.

Maybe one more time.

Isn’t that incredible? We are told that the people who were there were filled with awe and praised God. I want us when we read this account to do the same, to develop our hunger for the miraculous and our thanks for God for partnering with us. Let’s begin to practise reading the gospels with awe and amazement again, let’s praise God for who is and all that He has done and will do.

What an amazing nine words these are!