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• Today's "Moment With Mark" (31) A Miracle

  13 December, 2012

  
  The man jumped up, took the mat, and pushed his way through the stunned onlookers. Then they all praised God. "We've never seen anything like this before!" they exclaimed.  (Mark 2:12 )

  
  My response to that of the people is to say, "I'd like to see it for the first time - let alone more than once". Who of us have not heard of miracles of this kind - instant physical healing - but have not witnessed anything like it, up to this point anyway?

  It's not that I don't think such wonders can happen (and probably do) but I get frustrated when they happen everywhere but where I am.Now I hear about "verified miracles". But verified by what criteria? And who's doing the verifying? 

  Back in Mark 1/44 Jesus directed the healed leper to go to the priest to verify that he was healed.
  Maybe I'm just caught in a moment of uncertainty and caution.

  Or maybe I'm envious of what the crowd saw that day because I wasn't there to see what they saw, to hear what they heard and to praise God because I had witnessed such a miracle.