Third Day‘s song Carry My Cross has an interesting lyric:
I’ve come here with a mission
And soon I’ll give my life for this world
I’m praying in the garden
And I’m looking for a miracle
A reference to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane the night he was arrested. He would be put on trial and condemned to crucifixion. Jesus’s words,
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39)
Jesus was asking God for a miracle. I never considered that verse in such a profound light until the moment I heard that song. Jesus was asking for a miracle, one that would not be granted.
Not even Jesus, God’s own Son, was saved by a miracle although none but Him has ever been worthy of it.
When tragedy strikes, pray with all your heart for a miracle.
When it arrives, praise God.
When it doesn’t arrive, praise God all the more, for a miracle withheld once saved your soul.
Selah.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16
ooooh,… profound!