It had been a long, hard day. Nellie Frances was preparing dinner. She said it would be a few minutes. I laid down on the bed to rest and fell sound asleep for just a minute. The phone rang; I answered. The party calling had some information I had requested. I was trying to write it down, but I couldn’t see.
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Something’s wrong here, I thought as I squinted looking at the blurred print on a page. What’s happening? I must be going blind.
Then, suddenly, I remembered. I took my glasses off when I laid down and put them on the nightstand. I chuckled and asked the person on the telephone to excuse me while I got my glasses, and everything returned to normal.
Later, I was telling the story to some friends; and another friend related a similar story. She went to sleep; and when she awoke, she could see very clearly. She thought she had been healed. “My goodness,” she thought, “I’ve been healed. I can see again.”
“Hallelujah!” (My word not hers.)
Then, she remembered she had forgotten to take out her contacts when she went to sleep. That’s the reason she could see. Her story was better than mine.
There is a fine line between a miracle and a tragedy. If you had owned the house where the four men let the paralytic down through the roof to Jesus’ feet, you may have thought it was a tragedy. However, if you were the paralyzed man Jesus healed, you would have regarded the incident as a miracle.
Often, the difference in a miracle and a tragedy is the touch of God. By all human standards, the cross is the most tragic event ever. In the name of God, religious people crucified the Son of God — Jesus. Thinking they were doing the right thing, they did the worst deed in all of history.
By human standards, the cross is the world’s worst tragedy. Nevertheless, God touched that event and made it a miracle. A few hours later, Jesus was raised from the dead; and the cross became our redemption. God took man’s worst act of history, touched it, and made it God’s greatest miracle of all times — the redemption of all mankind.
Whatever sad or tragic event may be going on in your life right now can be changed into a miracle by God’s touch.
Would you pause now and ask him to do it?
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