God Has Ways He Loves to Work

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12:24

“I would thou wert cold or hot.” Revelation 3:15

The impossible belongs to our God. While reading through the Biblical history of God’s interactions with His people, it appears God has a flair for the dramatic. He splits the Red Sea at the exact moment that He can simultaneously deliver the Israelites and destroy the armies of Egypt. He sends David to check on his brothers just as Goliath is in the middle of his tauntings. He surrounds the crucifixion of Christ with the confessions of a dying thief and an awestruck centurion, while also rending the veil, opening tombs, and blotting out the sun. He knows how He wants to bring Himself glory.

A death that produces life is just one of His stylistic miracles. We are so accustomed to seeds producing fruit that the miraculous is lost in familiarity. Plants producing seeds that die, and yet still produce new plants, are so prolific they become commonplace. But the Word of God does not ignore the miracle. God specifically claims to be the cause of every blade of grass, every edible herb, every grape, olive, and ear of wheat. (Psalm 104:14-15). It is God who “maketh grass to grow upon the mountains” and “satisfiest the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 147:8 and 145:16). He breathes life into the dead seed, untold millions of times each day.

In contrast, we cannot bring a single seed to life. Death producing life is always impossible for man. It is always a miracle. Humans cannot produce the supernatural. Carnality cannot produce spirituality. Blindness cannot produce sight. Dead bones do not get up and start marching in rank. 

But God. He does all these things and rejoices in doing them. And God has ways He loves to work. Like an artist, He has scenes He loves to paint. Like a master musician, He has favorite songs to play. 

According to Jesus in Revelation 3, God "would" we be hot or cold. One of His favorite ways or conditions in which to work His miracle is in the heat of a well-tilled field of a Godly home. He spends many scriptures celebrating this method. I have written elsewhere on how God glorifies Himself through a Godly home.

Another way He loves to work is in the spectacle of turning a barren wilderness into a fruitful field. (Psalm 107:35; Isaiah 32:15-16; Isaiah 35:1-7). God’s work in the barren wilderness of the spiritually cold has the expected result that “they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.” (Isaiah 35:2).

All this leads to a sobering conclusion. The place or condition where God "would not" or prefers not to do the miraculous is among the lukewarm. He is repulsed by the home or church or soul that knows to do good, and nonchalantly doeth it not. Those who have previously seen the miraculous but are unmoved to glorify God should not expect to see the supernatural happening in their midst. 

In conclusion, the miraculous belongs to He “who only hath immortality.” (1 Tim 6:16) And He loves to work in places like vibrant Godly homes and Spirit-ignited assemblies. He also loves to work in spiritually impoverished and cold places, where voodoo priests or pagan Catholics hold sway over the hearts of the people. But He is sickened by working with apathetic, well-fed but unthankful so-called Christians. All too often, I find myself being exactly that.