A Study in Job part three

The Scriptures speak of only two classes of people living on this massive earth—the natural man (or woman) and the spiritual man (or woman). If you are a natural person, you live and think in the realm of nature. You understand through your natural senses, and everything has a natural and rational explanation. For you, pigs don’t fly, and people don’t walk on water. Seas don’t open up and allow masses of human beings to walk through them. Snakes and donkeys don’t talk, walls don’t fall down when people shout, arks don’t carry animals two-by-two, the blind aren’t made to see with the touch of a hand, and the dead aren’t brought back to life with a spoken word.

But the spiritual man and woman see things very differently. For them, anything goes because they are dealing with the super-natural. With God anything is possible. Demon-possessed pigs can fly off cliffs, snakes and donkeys can talk, the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and what’s more, nothing needs to be explained. God created natural law, and He can suspend His own natural law any time He wishes.

As a Christian, I don’t wrestle with whether or not Jesus multiplied the bread and fish. I wonder how He did it. Were the fish cooked? Did the crowd of 5,000 plus people who ate it eat fish that was identical to the fish that He multiplied? How deep did the feet of Jesus go into the water upon which He walked? When the children of Israel walked through the Red Sea, could they see fish in the walls of water on each side?

There’s a reason that the person who is born again never doubts the miracles of God. They have had their own big miracle. The moment they repented they came to know God, their eyes and ears were opened, and faith came as a gift from God. It’s as though their lungs had been clogged with the filth of sin, and God had given them a heart/lung transplant. Believing the Bible came as naturally as breathing with a set of new and healthy lungs. A new life and “times of refreshing came from the presence of the Lord.”

Continued tomorrow...