The order on the way to your miracle

"I'm tired of hearing about your miracles. I don't experience them anyway." Such direct letters often reach me.

At first, I am very, very sorry to read that, but then I think of something, or someone from the Bible and recognize a mission on the way to our miracle.

I would like to follow through on this thought with you, friend.

When God gave Gideon a commission, Gideon responded with frustration, "...if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The Lord brought us up out of Egypt?’... " (Judges 6:13 NLT)

From this one verse I already understand quite a bit: God had performed miracles in the lives of Gideon's ancestors. He himself was still benefiting from these miracles at this point, but he was no longer aware of it. The Lord had delivered his ancestors from Egypt; he saw that. But he did not want to hear about how his people had to endure slavery for years before that,  without knowing if and when they would experience their miracle.

Now God wanted him to experience his personal miracle, but Gideon was neither grateful for what God had already done for him, nor was he willing to do something for his miracle, possibly even to go through a hard time first, like his parents had.

For God had commissioned him to GO, in the truest sense of the word: “...Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!” (Judges 6:14 NLT). At the end of that walk, his miracle—his personal miracle—would be waiting for him. 

If you want to experience your miracle, you must also be willing to go where God sends you.

friend, let's be thankful for the miracles of the past and trust God even if the next miracle is not yet seen. If we continue in trust, we will experience our miracle!

You are a miracle!