By miracle, I mean God showing up in an atypical way, solving a problem that either seems insurmountable or would take years to untangle or unravel.
He did it time and again in the Bible, and we've heard these stories in our culture even if we've never cracked the Book.
He parted the Red Sea.
He (as Jesus) multiplied the fishes and the loaves.
He (as Jesus) healed the leper.
I know He shows up in these atypical, miraculous ways today. People are delivered from impossible circumstances through illogical means and we can document these.
But when is it right to wait on a miracle of our own--an atypical deliverance from our pressing, impossible circumstances?
If you are a ponderer of God--that is, you spend some of your personal time in deep reflection of Who He is and how He might want to show Himself through your life--I think you will begin to have a deep stirring if He is up to something big on your behalf. Guaranteed? Of course not. No one can guarantee anything of God except the promises He presents in His Book.
But if you know that you know that you know, then pester Him, praise Him, and most of all, show yourself waiting expectantly.
Is it messy in the waiting? Well, consider this: in the middle of this very post, my four-year-old granddaughter was sleeping on the sofa as I worked. She had awakened with a headache and deep cough so I moved her to let others sleep (mountain time here--still very predawn). She suddenly started crying that she was going to throw up so I grabbed her to protect this rental property and sure enough, she covered me.
So is this significant to waiting on miracles? I don't know--it might just be God's sense of humor because her name is...Eden.
