Does God still do miracles? Is God still in the business of wondrous signs?
It’s a fair question. When we read Acts, we encounter a world filled with signs and wonders: people healed, lives transformed, the Holy Spirit poured out, and events that left people amazed. Things happened that could not be easily explained away. The miraculous was unmistakable. It stopped people in their tracks and pointed them beyond what they had just witnessed to the power and presence of God. And that was the point. Those signs and wonders pointed somewhere. They were never meant to simply terminate in amazement. They revealed the awesome power of God; a witness and testimony to the Almighty.
Fast forward two thousand years. In the realm of wonder and amazement, I think two things have primarily shifted. We have become experts at manufacturing the “miraculous” and, at the same time, we have become an increasingly skeptical people. When everything is extraordinary, nothing is. When everything invokes wonder, nothing does. Clever editing, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, artificial intelligence – we can manufacture almost anything and make it look real. Somewhere along the way, I think we’ve exchanged our desire for true wonder, true awe, true amazement for something much cheaper: a dopamine fix. We scroll, we watch, we react, and then we move on. We are entertained by the extraordinary without ever being moved by it. Tragic.
So, what about the movement of God? Are there still legitimate miracles? Does He still work in awe-inspiring ways? Is the supernatural still at work among the natural? I think the answer is yes. God has not changed, and neither has His power. Perhaps you have witnessed miraculous healing, an inexplicable rescue, or an answer to prayer that could not be easily dismissed. We should tell those stories. We should celebrate them. We should expect God to move in ways that only he can. Yes, God still does miracles.
But perhaps the harder question is not, “Why don’t we see more miracles?” Perhaps the harder question is, “Have we learned to recognize the ways God is moving?”
Because if we only look for God in the spectacular, we will miss him in the ordinary.
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The Bible certainly gives us moments of thunder and fire, but it also gives us a God who works through a conversation, a meal, a friendship, a sacrifice, a faithful servant, and an ordinary person saying yes to God. In Acts, the spectacular signs pointed people toward something even more profound: lives being changed by the Spirit of God. The greatest miracle was not simply that someone’s body was healed. It was that a dead heart was made alive.
And that kind of miracle is still happening all around us.
God moves when a bitter heart learns to forgive. He moves when a marriage is restored. He moves when someone who has spent years running from God finally turns toward him. He moves when a friend makes the phone call, when someone quietly serves without recognition, when a grieving person finds peace they cannot explain, or when a person chooses faithfulness when no one is watching.
These are the things that should make us stop and wonder in our day and age. The awe and wonder of signs and miracles centuries ago that pointed mankind to God is perhaps now most visible in the ordinary, the slow, the patient, the relational, the subtle. In a culture saturated with spectacle, maybe one of the most countercultural things we can do is slow down enough to notice God’s unmistakable power in those places.
This post was contributed by Pastor Andrew Silbert.
