A miraculous connection with God

 














The pastor asked us to read these verses from Ecclesiastes from the bible, and coincidentally the words just answered the question in my mind!

I used to think all the good things were arranged by the God. After witnessing the miracles from my friends and family, I kept encouraging myself to work harder so that I could also deserve the same miracles. However, as I become older, I found our fates are more complicated than I thought, because although miracles happened, they usually could not last long.

I just had to ask the God: if people were meant to get the miracles, why were they also meant to lose them later? Is this a way to make fun of us? If happiness can never last forever, is there any meaning left in our life? Is our life still worth living?

The verses just explained the interdependency of happiness and tragedy. The opposite things depend on each other to exist, such as life and death, creation and destruction, or healing and killing, just like the pendulum is meant to return to the bottom at its highest point.

However, the pastor reminded us that God does not want us to live in this way. In fact, God has two different sets of laws. One is the law of nature, just like the things mentioned in the verses. It is as objective as the work of machinery. Another one is God’s active intervention into our life to give us happiness!

Originally, we human beings could all be blessed by the God to escape from the tragedies caused by the law of nature. However, the sins that we committed made us lose our connection with the God, so we have to suffer in the law of the nature and never be able to fathom the God’s plan for us.

It is the exact reason why people can not rely on themselves to find eternal happiness. The only way to escape from the pendulum swinging of happiness and sadness and find everlasting joy for our life is to connect with the God again. We were disqualified to communicate with the God because of our sins, but Jesus sacrificed himself to wash away all our sins, so we are able to reconnect with the God through Him! This is why our faith in Christ is more important than anything else in our life!

One great example is the miraculous healing in the bible. From the knowledge of medicine, we know it takes time for the cells to regenerate themselves in the healing of illness and tissue injuries. This is the law of nature. However, Jesus can heal all kinds of injuries instantly! This is the supernatural miracles from the active intervention of the God!

Coincidentally, recently my cousin M also reminded me that the miracle healing is not limited to physical illness. The damages in our heart can also be healed miraculously! The past experience has left so many stabbing wounds in our heart and let us lose our courage and confidence, but God can make all the painful wounds disappear right away, so we can love again and go for our dreams again without any fear! After experiencing this kind of miracles, we must be able to thank all the people who hurt us before and all the bad circumstances that made us unhappy before, because all these bad things led us to witness the most wonderful graces delivered by God Himself!


Ecclesiastes (3:1-11)
1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What does the worker gain from his toil?
10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.


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