What is Jesus’ greatest miracle?

The miracle that could perhaps be Jesus’ greatest miracle, based on the fact that it’s the only miracle included in all four gospels, is the feeding of the 5,000. If a photographer had snapped a photo, you would probably just see one person handing another a bit of food. On an individual basis, handing one person a meal of bread and fish doesn’t seem like very much. Only when you consider the multiplication of meager resources, and the scale of the miracle as measured by one small miracle after another many times over, does it seem great.

This miracle, or the little miracles happening thousands of times as a disciple handed out each meal, was not super significant in terms of what it accomplished. Yes, it was done on a big scale, but think about it: No one was starving. Most people can miss a meal or two with no problem! It was not a life or death situation, so it was easy to dismiss as a major miracle.

How many little, everyday miracles do we miss? We need Jesus to give us the understanding of what we see.

The disciples, left to their own devices, would have missed the miracle. The disciples had just returned from a missionary assignment that engaged them in performing many miracles. Yet, they would have sent the crowd away to find food and lodging. They didn’t even consider that Jesus might have something miraculous in mind. But Jesus prepares them for a miracle by telling the disciples, “You give them something to eat.”

The disciples missed its significance.

Even after their involvement in this miracle, Jesus’ own disciples didn’t grasp its immensity. Jesus had to do something similar on another occasion (the feeding of the 4,000 in Matthew 15), and even then the disciples were concerned about having enough bread with them for their journey (Matthew 16).

Jesus still had to remind them of the miracles. They just didn’t grasp what was happening. Maybe after the disciples had been involved in spectacular miracles on their missionary journey of Luke 9, the little miracle of handing a person a fish sandwich just didn’t seem like much.

Jesus works this miracle through his disciples.

As the body of Christ, we are one small miracle repeated thousands of times. Maybe we could each be available to God for just one small miracle. No single one of us has to do thousands of miracles. Each of us letting Jesus work through us to do even small miracles, when multiplied by the hundreds of people in our church, becomes a major witness to the power and authority of Jesus. Here’s an eye-opening suggestion: some of God’s greatest miracles are the small, seemingly insignificant things multiplied many times over by the members of the family of God.

Do you doubt that God would do a miracle through you? 

Sometimes the handing out of the bread doesn’t seem so miraculous, but there are numerous miracles behind your act of kindness. The fact that you are where you are when you are is a miracle. Because I almost died at 7 or 8 years old and Jesus saved me, that makes me a miracle. Anything God does to bless someone else through me after that has an element of a miracle connected to it. If you have a miracle story in your past, every story in your present is miraculous, too. You have a miracle story, I’m sure. Your own salvation, if nothing else, is a miracle story! After that, everything God does though you has a touch of the miraculous.

IF SOMEONE PERCEIVES THE LIGHT OF CHRIST, THAT’S A MIRACLE! 

Jesus says that we are to let our lights shine through good deeds so that the people who see will glorify our Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16). So even if our very small good deeds, our acts of kindness, don’t seem like much in our own eyes, people can see God’s light through them. And if our good deeds help someone to see the light and love of Jesus, that’s miraculous. 

Will you let God multiply his ministry through you? Could you at least give a piece of bread to someone who is hungry? If you can do that, God can work through you to do miracles.

Have you experienced a miracle?

If you have experienced God working through in a miraculous way, I invite you to share below! What happened and how has your life changed because of that miracle?

Please leave your story in the comments section!

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