APRIL 29 "THE GREATEST MIRACLE"

      Sometimes the greatest miracle is the one that's right in front of our eyes, that we take for granted. We are looking for a leg to grow out, a cancer prognosis to be vetoed, but we miss the many other miracles that God is doing right in front of us.  Does anybody take notice of the miracle in our text we read,  in Luke 24:33 "they got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. They they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together". How quickly we forget that this group wasn't a group Jesus found all together on the Basketball Court, a group of friends he called unto himself.  And so they were together before they met and followed Jesus; and of course they are together once Jesus has died, why wouldn't they. 

      However, that's not the case.  Luke, the one writing the narrative, is a Dr., Matthew was a sniveling, tax collector, James & John our brawley cussing Fishermen, Simon, a political zealot....the point is, these men had nothing in common, prior to Jesus, their paths would have never connected and they would never have associated with each other, had it not been for Jesus, bringing them together.  Bringing them together is one thing, but the greatest miracle is that after Jesus has died, they REMAINED together.  This group remains in Fellowship with each other and goes on to "turn the world upside down" (Acts 17:6).  So called Christians, who claim they don't need the church, miss this miracle in their life.  The miracle of God assembling a bunch of people from different walks of life and forming them into one, giving them a love for one another; a group that would never have associated prior to Jesus. That is the miracle experience of The Church.  It's one of the greatest miracles we experience every week, for those of us that are part of a church and it is often the greatest miracle, we take most for granted. 

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