The Queen of England is not legally required to have a driver’s license or use her seat belt. Upon learning this, my mind went to a silly thought. Would God always use His seat belt? The question raises some interesting issues regarding God and His laws. Inherent in this is the nature of Jesus’ miracles. According to my dictionary the definition of “miracle” is “an event that appears to be contrary to the laws of nature and is regarded as an act of God.” Does God perform miracles? Does God break or supersede or overrule the very laws He Himself established? And if so, does He have immunity? We must not miss the word “appears” in the definition.
God does things that “appear” to us to be miracles. But He does not break His own laws. If so, Lucifer could have a heyday accusing God of making laws that cannot be kept and saying that God Himself does not keep them. I don’t think God would open Himself up to that horrendous allegation because that is the very heart of the struggle between good and evil.
God is a scientist. There are scientific secrets not yet discovered by us. Twenty years ago few of us could have grasped the technology that now aids our daily lives. He was not breaking a natural law when Jesus restored sight to the blind. He is the Creator of eyes. He was not breaking a natural law when Jesus put new fingers and lips on the lepers. He is the One who said, “Let us make man in our image.” When airplanes zoom us quickly around the world and rockets shoot us to the Space Station, it isn’t superseding laws. It’s being educated.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 2, 2014
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