Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!" - Lk 7: 16
It seems an appropriate response to the raising of a dead man. It seems to me that our approach to the inexplicable is neither fear nor praise, but skepticism. Maybe this is a good thing, in moderation, like most good things. I know that I tend to seek rational explanations for things insofar as seems reasonable: I tend to think that most near-death experiences are dreams, that most prayers for healing are answered through medicine or the body's recovery mechanisms. Still some things are clearly beyond these sorts of explanations. My friends' daughter's hearing loss, which she'd had since birth and for which she has always required hearing aids, was restored in an instant at a healing prayer service. My other friend had a tumor simply disappear from her body between the second time it was imaged, indicating that it had grown, and when they went in shortly thereafter to remove it.
Perhaps science will one day explain all such phenomena, and I've no quarrel with those who insist on giving it a chance to. I believe, though, that God works through both the mundane and the miraculous. And I trust that my prayers which are not answered in the way I desire serve his will in whatever way he chooses to answer them instead.
But even when the obviously miraculous does occur, it's purpose is far greater than the miracle itself. The widow's son eventually died again, but God's plan is to bring us to eternal life.
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