No wonder Jesus also wondered… (Mark 6:6) 180908
And He [Jesus] wondered at their unbelief. And He was going around the villages teaching. (Mark 6:6)
I had a motorbike accident a few months ago. It was not really an accident per se, it was me losing control of my motorbike and hit the curb and I fell off my bike. It was not as if someone else’s fault, and I was even embarrassed to call that an accident. It was like walking on a street and for whatever reason, your left foot tripped your right foot and you lost balance and feel to the ground. Maybe the correct word of that is “clumsy”.
But my point is not about me being clumsy, though I am; it is about the miracle that happened to me. I fell and fractured my right wrist. I was actually being thrown off by my bike and I was only less than a foot from a tree. If I flew a foot more, I will have my head hitting the tree and my spine might be injured further. I was already having slip-disc condition for a few years.
As I was recovering from the fractured right wrist, I discovered that my slip-disc condition seemed to have disappeared. I no longer feel my back aching for sitting too long which was a common phenomenal. I guess God did a once-and-for-all alignment for me when I was flying off my bike and my shoe-lace was hooked onto the mirror so that my flight will land just a foot before the tree. The pull back by my bike somehow straighten me up! I am amazed by God’s way of healing.
When that accident happened, I was about to graduate from my Theological studies and will be back to church to work in July. The doctor and the physiotherapist told me that it will take me at least four months to recover from the fracture and about six months before my right wrist can regain its full function. Well, I am now typing with my both hands, and no problem with my right hand at all. My right wrist was fully recovered and was officially discharged by my hand doctor and my physiotherapist eight weeks after the surgery on my right wrist. They were amazed and I told them, it must be God who healed me and helped me to recover that fast, and it was just in time for me to start work in July with good hands.
I believe God still heals and do miracles today. I have experienced His healing power. I read about it in the Bible, I have seen it and heard about it in other people’s testimonies, and I have experienced it personally. But there are still people who do not believe. I wondered at their unbelief, and no wonder Jesus wondered at their unbelief.
I am not a hyper-charismatic or a healing evangelist; I am a Christian who reads the Bible and have been involved in lives of many others to conclude that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. I wonder at people who claim to believe in Bible as the living word of God, but do not embrace that God is still very much alive today in our lives. I wonder at people who believe in praying for the sick but do not accept that miraculous healing can still take place today. I wonder at people who believe that God still speaks today but have restricted God’s vocabulary to all we can find in the Bible.
I wonder, no wonder Jesus also wondered. Again, I must re-emphasis that I am not a hyper-Charismatic or a healing evangelist, but I dare not confine God in the way He would want to work and minister to His people. I believe all that I have read in the Bible, that God still heals and works in and through and among us. I believe that He has all the authority and as He commissioned us as His disciples, and He promised to be with us to the very end of the age, His authority and power from the Holy Spirit will also be with us too (Matt 28:18-20, Acts 1:8).
Be opened to the wonders which Jesus is going to in your life, do not let Him wonder at your unbelief.
HHS…
Abel…
