A MIRACLE IS ON YOUR WAY

It is very human to expect miracles to happen in the usual way. You think of something exciting and hope things would happen the way you planned.

But remember miracles are miracles because they do not happen the usual way. They happen the God's way.

Are you facing a touch situation in your life and waiting for a breakthrough? Do you know for certain that only a divine intervention can solve your problem?

Moses was in a similar situation. The thousands of Israelites cried against Moses, because they were tired of eating manna for days together. But what else could they find in the wilderness, other than that divine provision? Where would Moses go to get meat for the murmuring and craving people?

Annoyed, Moses felt he was a failure. He sought death rather than facing that situation.

At that juncture, God promises to do a miracle.

Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?”’”

Numbers 11:18-20

And since God said it, it would happen, no matter what. It really wasn't Moses’ job to figure out how this would happen. That's God problem.

But Moses takes it upon himself. He begins making a mental calculation of how God could do something like this.

Many times in our life we end up doing the same. We begin to make guesses, sometimes we make plans on our own and some brilliant people would even start suggesting to God.

God is wiser than you. He knows more than what you know or could ever think or imagine. Allow God to do His job.

Moses begins to think. First he counts the number of people.

Vs 21 - The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot. So God has to provide meat for so much people. And then he calculates the number of days. Same verse continues yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.

Moses thinks God has made a wrong calculation. He is saying, God, don’t you know there are so many men? And Yet how could you say, you are going to provide meat not just for a day or two but for a whole month?

Moses thinks God did some foolishness by over-promising and he gets worried. How is God going to do this? How can God do this?

Next, he thinks of the resources available with them for God to perform the miracle. He looks around. What do they have with them? They have with them flocks of sheep and may be herds of cattle and probably there may some fish in the sea. But he realises even all this is just not enough for all that God has over-promised them. So

Moses asks the next question to God.

Vs 22 - Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?”

Moses might seem stupid. But many times in our life, we act just like him. Like Moses, we also see only the obvious. We calculate based on what the requirement is, what are the resources available, what are the means available and we begin to make our suggestions to God.

We see only what we can with our limited vision and think of ways that a miracle could happen. But a miracle is beyond that. A miracle requires faith. And what is faith? As the writer of Hebrews puts it, ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’

You can never see or imagine what God has in mind for you. Look at God's reply to Moses. God doesn't say to Moses. ‘No, my son. You are doing a wrong calculation. But this is my plan and this is the way I’m going to perform the miracle.’

Are you waiting for a miracle in your life? Don’t expect God to give you details. If God were to tell you everything, you wouldn’t need faith at all.

If God said it, it will happen. Come what may. Numbers 23:19 - God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

You need great faith because you have a great God who will do things in a great way - beyond what your little brains and minds can think.

I am sure Moses would have been spellbound when he saw the miracle happen.

The wilderness was filled with quail, so much that the thousands of people kept gathering them for two whole days.

Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp, as far as a day’s walk in any direction. 32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.

According to the Hebrew system of measurement, a “day’s walk” is approximately 15 miles in any one direction. 15 miles is approximately 24 km. So close to 30 miles (48 km), the quail was spread to the height of two cubits (close to one meter 0.91).

The Israelites were parked in the Desert of Paran, a region about 50 miles inland from Mediterranean Sea and fifty miles south-west of the dead sea. Quails tend to live by the water and they don’t fly long distances. Unless God had sent a supernatural wind, the quail could have never traveled this long!

Moses wouldn’t have thought of this in his wildest imagination. Miracles need your faith.

Don’t lose heart. Don’t give up. Keep your faith. Your miracle is on your way.