Everyday Miracles

“I was a true atheist, addicted to pornography and a big fan of torture. I hated the Bible and literally looked at “contract killer” as a career option. I favored Darwinian abortion of potentially disabled children and agreed with the majority of Adolph Hitler’s statements about the disabled and invalid. I fantasized about murder and contemplated suicide and held nothing but hatred in my heart for anyone who told me I was wrong. In short, I was the most degenerate scum to ever walk the earth. That God saved me is still so far beyond my comprehension I have to wake up every day and think ‘wow’.”

“Nowadays, I work at the church I once hated going to. I greet daily a pastor I once did everything in my power to ignore, and I serve as an assistant to a youth leader I once despised. I play in the Sunday band and teach drums to young boys of the congregation for extra income. I teach Sunday school and am a regular fixture at the weekly prayer meetings and church events. People who have known me throughout the process have told me how astonishing it is to have seen the transformation. But no one is as impressed as me with how God has changed my heart and my life.”

“So, that’s me. I’m a 6′6″, 19-year-old motorcyclist who plays drums, carries a Bible, vacuums a church, writes scripts that will never be made films, and carries around a hefty supply of the Way of the Master Radio on his iPod.”

– Jacques Reulet¹

That the sun rises every morning is a miracle. That you are able to wake up, walk and breathe and read this is a miracle. We don’t need to see or seek to see other miracles to believe that God is good and that He is sovereign.

For me, the biggest miracle, occurring everyday, is the working of the Holy Spirit in us as a work-in-progress to make us more like Christ Jesus.

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 8:29-30

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Amen.

¹ Testimony of Jacques Reulet first read on Way of the Master Radio April 18, 2008. Reproduced from Ray Comfort’s blog.

Photograph “Monarch Butterfly in the Herb Garden” by Hint of Plum.