Miracles of JesusНамуна

Healing the Paralytic

I get why some have trouble accepting miracles. They just seem too, well, unbelievable. But how much more unbelievable is someone who can forgive sins? Learned onlookers rightly objected about Jesus’ healing of a paralyzed man: "Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

I love the contrast here between natural and supernatural miracles. Personally, I don’t doubt miracles occur. In God’s grand scheme of things, why not? The even bigger deal is God’s unbelievable-but-true miracle of dealing with our wrong. Such an enormous, eternal problem only could be solved by God. And then Jesus shows up, His physical healings confirming divine authority and power—the sort only God alone has.

Written by BEN MCEACHEN