There’s a hunger in much of the Church today for supernatural things such as miracles, visions, angelic visitations and dreams. I would even go so far as to say that many in the church have a desperate desire to experience these things.
Biblically, these are very much a part of the Christian experience. They’re seen in a variety of circumstances in the Bible, and they’re generally unpredictable in their appearance in Biblical writings. I’ve heard many people say that these things no longer exist today, however the Bible never called for an end to them. Additionally, the lives of everyday people in Bible writings included these experiences as a means of hearing God’s will and leading for particular callings and circumstances in their lives. The Bible includes these examples as possibilities of the ways in which God might move in our lives.
There is one common theme for every one of these supernatural experiences in the Bible: the one receiving the experience never sought it! In fact, most of these events occurred when people were simply serving God through earnestly living His word, loving others and fulfilling His purposes for their lives. They may have called out to God for help or wisdom, but they never ask Him to give them one of these supernatural experiences. We must be cautious not to seek these experiences so desperately that the rest of our walk with the Lord comes to a standstill, effectively stifling our sanctification process!
The reason I write this word today is to ask you to look at what God has done in your life. There have been many miraculous things in mine that didn’t come with a flash of lightning or being rapt in a vision, but nonetheless they were miraculous. And there are times I’ve seen things which I know my natural eye couldn’t have conjured up – it had to have been supernatural. The point is that God is in every moment of our lives and it’s His decision how he chooses to move in each moment. Our openness to His possibilities is necessary, but when we over-stress our own definition of ‘supernatural’ and hyper-seek these experiences, we sometimes miss the voice of God and the way He wants to move in our lives. It is also necessary to see that Biblically, there are some giftings which experience these occurrences more regularly than others.
Remain balanced in God: just seek Him and stay in His Word. He knows the best avenue to get you where He’s created you to go in life. Recognize and be thankful for His participation, no matter how it comes. Yet, don’t limit His means of moving for fear of how He might supernaturally do it!
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