Tiny miracles

    While helping her son clean up construction debris at his home, Karen started experiencing symptoms of an allergic reaction. Her skin began itching off and on. Around the same time, she had her hair done by a new hair stylist and felt that maybe she was allergic to the hair chemicals. Shortly after, she began to lose a lot of hair to the point where she feared she would have to use a wig. She visited the dermatologist and he prescribed medication. However, she was reluctant to use it.
    She turned instead to intense prayer. She told God that she didn’t understand what was happening but she was going to wait on Him. For six months she prayed for healing but experienced no sign of improvement. However, one day she picked up her phone to watch the 700 Club. The prayer segment was on. She hoped that one of the announcers would mention her problem … and they did. She knew that that word of knowledge and prayer were for her. She began to cry, stopped what she doing, lifted her hands and thanked God for hearing her. Shortly after, she noticed that she was no longer suffering from heavy hair loss. She simply has the regular hair loss she is accustomed to from washing or brushing her hair. She acknowledges that hair loss is not a big sickness but what she was going through mattered to her so it mattered to God. He has our best interests at heart.
    The word “miracle” may conjure up in our mind something big and impossible like maybe the parting of a Red Sea, or someone being delivered from a near death experience or an impossible healing where doctors say there is no hope. I was moved by the above testimony because it is a miracle. It may seem insignificant, but it’s a miracle nonetheless. I love the fact that God is concerned about everything about us. He is not only interested in performing big, impossible feats that everyone would be sure to notice. But He also does those little, seemingly insignificant things that He knows we care about.
    The Bible also contains such stories of small miracles. Jesus’ first miracle at a wedding feast falls into this category (John 2:1-11). Jesus did not come onto the scene in a blaze of glory. They had run out of wine and Jesus simply did something about it. In fact, few people at that wedding knew that Jesus had turned the water into wine. With this simple miraculous feat, He saved the bridegroom from embarrassment and exalted him in the eyes of his guests.
    In Matthew 17:24-27, Jesus and Peter are faced with having to pay the temple tax. Jesus tells Peter to go fishing and in the mouth of the first fish he catches, he would find a coin. This he would use to pay both his and Jesus’ temple tax. This was not a miracle for the public to see. They needed the money for the tax and the Lord chose to provide it in this supernatural way. 
    There are many other stories in the Bible about tiny, personal miracles that met the needs of one person or another. It was not always about calming a storm or parting a large body of water. God is concerned about those areas of our life that matter to us. I like to think about God as a personal God, because He is. Sometimes we may be afraid to pray for something because it seems too unimportant to pray about but guess what? God is concerned about that unimportant issue simply because it is important to us. His love for us is greater than we can ever think or imagine. 
    If you have not accepted Jesus Christ into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, I encourage you to do so today. God is a personal God. He cares about the big as well as the little things that we face. He loves us and has our best interests at heart. Nothing is too big or too small for Him to accomplish for us. Be encouraged!

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