Open Letter to Bruce Wilkinson #1.003b
Chapter 1: A New Way to See the World – You were born to expect a miracle today
Page 3 (continued)
+ / – / ? “Almost everyone in the world – whatever their religious belief – can point to an event in their lives that seemed directly orchestrated by Heaven, that seemed impossible to explain without using words like “I can’t believe what just happened! That was a miracle.” We call these experiences divine coincidences, miracle moments, supernatural provisions.”
Since I gave all three marks (+, – and ?) for this particular portion of your text, let me break it down.
Yes, nearly everyone has had the kind of universal experience of which you speak. It would also be biblically accurate to refer to these as “supernatural provisions,” as you termed them.
To call them “miracle moments,” though, does not fit the biblical definition or pattern of miracles. Have some people in our day and age witnesses authentic miracles in our day and age? I believe so. Have most of us witnessed this “nearly universal experience,” as you put it? Biblically, the answer must be no, especially when we take into account that the frequency of miracles (as documented in God’s Word) was such that fewer and fewer of them were wrought by God as He got closer and closer to the time when the writing of Scripture would be completed.
To call them “divine coincidences” places God, who is sovereign over every situation, in the same category as fate, chance and happenstance. (Personally, I’m glad to be able to say, “I used to believe in coincidence.”) Please omit this phrase in your next edition.
