THE CROSS: THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF ALL
“Show me a miracle, and I’ll believe.”
That claim is one of scepticism’s greatest deceptions. Spectacular signs do not soften a hardened heart. History makes this clear, and Israel’s wilderness journey is a powerful example.
The Wilderness: When Miracles Were Despised
The Israelites lived amid the supernatural. They crossed a divided sea and received miraculous bread from heaven each day. Yet how did they respond in the end?
Numbers 21:5 (NKJV): “And the people spoke against God and against Moses: ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.’“
They saw a daily miracle and called it “worthless.” Because of their rebellion, judgment came through venomous snakes. Still, God provided a merciful way of deliverance.
Numbers 21:9 (NKJV): “So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.”
They were told simply to “look and live,” yet many still resisted and died. The lesson is clear: even if a thousand undeniable miracles were recorded today, a sceptical heart could still dismiss them as illusions.
The Corinthian Problem: Chasing Spectacle
The modern church faces the same danger the Corinthian church faced in the first century. Corinth was a busy, status-driven city that prized polished rhetoric, public recognition, and dramatic spiritual displays. Many wanted a performance.
Paul corrected this dangerous mindset by reminding them that true spiritual power was not a theatrical display designed to entertain or persuade sceptics.
2 Corinthians 12:12 (ESV): “The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.”
Notice Paul’s keyword: patience, or endurance. In the early church, miracles flowed quietly and humbly from God’s grace through Paul’s suffering; they were not commercialised stage performances.
The 21st-Century Reality
If you claim Christ today, you do not need to chase signs and wonders. Anyone trying to sell you a “miracle” in the 21st century is selling deception.
You are already living in a miracle.
Your education, health, work, breath, and above all, the blood of Jesus Christ covering your life, are enough. When you grasp the agonising cost Christ paid for us, you stop demanding lesser signs from God.
Whatever your denomination or church, no greater miracle has ever been given to humanity than the DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST—given with immeasurable patience, perfect humility, and brutal endurance.
The Cross is sufficient.