God Attribute, 70

~ Miracle Worker ~

 

This Series  ~  This series of posts looks at some of the many attributes of God.  Generally, we move in alphabetical order.

 

Introduction  ~  Anyone with even a little orientation to the Bible understands that the Bible contains the historical accounts of a great many miracles in both the Old New Testaments.

 

One Old Testament example is the historical account of Moses and the burning bush, in which a bush was on fire but was not consumed by it. God used this as a method to get Moses’ attention.

 

This was typical in the sensed that God often uses miracles to get our attention. This is much more common in areas without all the available knowledge of the divine than those of us in “civilized and sophisticated” societies have available to us.  

 

In the New Testament the Greek word “dunamis” is translated as “miracle,” and its basic concept is “power."” While it is true that often God’s miracles do not follow our understanding of the “Laws of Nature” we need to remember that it was God Himself Who established those laws.

 

Scripture  ~  “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.’ So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here I am’.” (Exodus 3:1-4).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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