The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

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The second thought is that in attempting dimcult
and impossible things at Christ's command,
we get the power to do them.
Where there is the will, God makes the way.
Christ told this man to do what was humanly impossible.
Everybody would have said : It cannot be
done. Science would have called it a piece of folly.
And yet in the very act of obeying, and trying to
get up, a superhuman power was given to him, and
he surprised himself by doing it. Now, of course you
say that was a miracle — a thing extraordinary,
exceptional, and quite out of the range of human
experience to-day. Nothing like that ever happens
now, you say. But you are wrong. Christ intended
to teach us by those miracles on men's bodies certain
greater things which have to do with mind, heart,
morals, and religion. Things quite as unlikely and
extraordinary are done in the life of faith. Christ
does give men now strength enough to do things
which at the first thought of them seem well-nigh
impossible. It is true in a thousand ways, that when
God clearly bids us do a difficult thing, He bestows
upon us the power to accomplish it. We can almost
work impossibilities, if we attempt them with a
cheerful spirit of obedience, and a determined faith.
God is always asking us to do what our weak and
frightened hearts shrink from—things which seem
beyond our strength. It is much as it was in the