To be honest, I’m always hoping to witness some kind of miracle. The miracle of someone being healed, rain to come or stop as I pray, stars to shoot when I ask for it, circumstances to change in a miraculous way. You name it! It’s the signs and wonders that I am (and I think many people with me) looking for to be able to really believe there is a God. And I hope by experiencing this, my faith will maybe even grow stronger. We want to see to believe!
But lately my own life’s set of circumstances brought me to the realization that the biggest miracle of all is not in one of these!
Yes, I believe God as Creator can move mountains.
Yes, I believe He, as The Beginning and End, can stop time.
Yes, I believe (and witnessed) He can bring rain in places or tell it to stop.
But these three things are created without an own will. They don’t just decide by themselves to move from left to right, to fall today or tomorrow.
They are subjected to the Laws of Nature. (Which is a miracle on itself already! Who could ever come up with those!?!) God can easily ‘break into’ those.
The heart of men on the other hand is not subjected to any set of rules or force, but our own will. We have a free choice and we can make decisions for ourselves. We decide what we open our hearts to. We decide where we listen to. We decide how we want to react on things. We decide who we share our heart with and who we give our heart to. We have a free will!
The Bible speaks a powerful truth about the heart to us:
“Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it is the wellspring of life.”
(Proverbs 4:23)
The heart is our spring of life!
Squeezed by the circumstances of life, we will often find out what really lives in our hearts. Which motives drive us to live our life the way we live it. (Fear, pride, jealousy, anger, love for self.) At the very moment circumstances begin to pressure our heart, we can choose to ask God to change the circumstances. But I learned we can also choose to be still for a moment and take a look what’s really inside our hearts.
Because the most precious miracle I’ve experienced is the change of one’s heart!
God didn’t change my circumstances the time I asked Him…..
He was aiming at something far more miraculous: the change of my heart!
Which is of way more value then any miracle I can think of! Even though I’m longing for circumstances to be changed, He’s aiming for my heart, for He knows what it’s worth! It’s a strong, precious and worthy weapon in my future life as it comes.
The change of heart will make me able to move the mountains in my life.
The change of heart will do greater healing on the inside than can ever be done the outside.
The change of heart will make you and me like welcomed rain in the life of those who’s heart became dry land.
The change of heart will make us like a shooting star in the life of others.
The change of heart is the greatest prove of God’s love working among us to me!