Miracles

I read the following story in seed catalog called the "Seeds of Exchange" nearly twelve years ago. I have repeated the story from memory several time since, but I wanted to have a copy of it. A Facebook friend posted it, and then I google it and found it at several locations. The author is unknown.

A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says "get in, get in!" The religous man replies, " no I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle."

Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in god and god will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again cause "God will grant him a miracle."

With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in, mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help for the faith of God. He arrives at the gates of heaven with broken faith and says to Peter, I thought God would grand me a miracle and I have been let down." St. Peter chuckles and responds, "I don't know what you're complaining about, we sent you three boats and a helicopter."

There are numerous miracles in the Bible where there is a direct cause and effect. The Jesus gives the command and the miracle occurs. The above story illustrates that miracles happen in our lives and we just don't see them.

This scripture from the Book of Mormon makes an excellent case for miracles. Korihor wanted a sign, or a miracle that there is a God.

"But Alma said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator. Book of Mormon, Alma 30:44

The first cry of a new born baby is a miracle. The interaction of different organism in nature is a miracle. The unusual survival of and injured or deathly ill person is a miracle. A deadly accident that didn't happen because of an unexplained last second intervention is a miracle. The landing of a plane full of passengers on the Hudson River is a miracle. They are all around us.