Miracles Unknown

We are in Holy Week.

I haven't taken as much time for quiet meditation as I have in past years.  It's been a hectic spring break. My oldest is finally resting comfortably now that it's been over 24 hours since her wisdom teeth were removed.  My youngest has been a bit bored due to icky weather this week.....and I've been consumed with caring for the 17 year old, and spring cleaning the house.

But....yesterday, while at the orthodontist with my 12 year old (she just needed an x-ray update and a check to see if she can get the braces on yet...she can't...she still needs to lose 5 baby teeth)....anyways....while I was there, I began to think about miracles that happen and we don't even know about them, or we are unaware that God has worked one in our lives.  

What precipitated this was when the nurse called me back to show me the x-ray.  Everything is progressing fine with her permanent spacer that is on her bottom teeth.  However...God performed a miracle that we didn't even know about!!  Actually, we had forgotten about the problem.  But He was working, anyways!

2 years ago, during a routine dental cleaning, the family dentist needed to take x-rays of Claire, who was 10 at the time.  He noticed an odd "thing" in her upper gumline.  It wasn't a tooth, and he really didn't know what it was.  He called it an "artifact".  We were a little concerned because he said the worse case scenario would be that it was some kind of tumor or something that would have to be surgically removed.  He wanted to have another set of x-rays done by the orthodontist since she was starting Phase 1.  So....the first set of x-rays did show something up there in the gumline, but again the orthodontist didn't really know what it was.  He said we'd wait.  Meanwhile, I prayed maybe 2 times about this and totally forgot all about it as the next 2 years went by. I wasn't too concerned.

Until yesterday.

The nurse showed me the x-rays and said whatever was there is now gone!!!

I call this an unknown miracle.  Meaning, we hadn't even been praying for this because we really had forgotten all about it and obviously it never caused her any trouble.  And yet....God clearly worked because things just don't disappear on their own.  The set of x-rays prove this.  When I told my husband at dinner time, he, too, had forgotten about Claire's weird "artifact" in her mouth.  We just hadn't been praying about it and I guess we weren't all the worried.  We don't tend to worry cause we know the girls' are in His Hands....and yet...if I had been reminded of this problem, I probably would have started becoming anxious.  Maybe it is better to have forgotten.  Either way...God did not forget!!

GLORY TO GOD!

So...I am now thinking this morning,  that God moves when we don't even know it.

Of course we all know this.  But....do we ever experience it?  Do we realize just what God is doing beyond our prayers?

In light of tomorrow and the special day it means to those of us who are born-again believers, we might not know just what miracles God is doing, unknown to us.  Perhaps He is healing someone physically, emotionally, or spiritually that you prayed for a long time ago but have forgotten......

Perhaps He is knocking on someone's heart door and that person might be drawing the Saviour in.....sometimes we poke fun at the people who just show up for church for Good Friday services or Easter Sunday morning worship.  Yet...we don't know what God is doing in those people.  We need to believe that HE is working in their hearts......and if it just takes them gazing at the Cross....well...we just don't know what God will do....and the miracles He can perform....

perhaps He is doing a work on your own heart.....by making you slow down, reflect on what He did for us on that Cross.....I know He is working on my own heart in a couple of areas where I am overwhelmed in thinking the situation is impossible.....but nothing is impossible with God!!

those x-rays prove it.