If you were to list all of our Lord’s miracles in the gospels in order of the ones that were most impressive, the miracle we hear this Sunday in the gospel would probably be at the bottom, one of the least impressive miracles, because if you paid attention, all Jesus really did was he cured Peter’s mother-in-laws fever. She was sick, not deathly sick, and he made her well.

And again, think about it, Jesus walked on water, he rose people from the dead, he resurrected them, he allowed a paralyzed man to get up, carry a stretcher, and walk. These are impressive things, but this miracle is pretty basic. We all get sick and Jesus healed what is the common cold, basically.
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But therein lies the key message, brothers and sisters. There’s no small miracle. Jesus wants to perform a miracle in our lives. Now, sometimes we think the miracle is going to be us winning the lottery, or being able to dunk a basketball, or something extraordinary, and he might perform those miracles, perhaps, but more often than not, the miracle is something very small, like curing a fever.

Now, it might be giving you more patience. It might be restoring a broken relationship in your life, or maybe again, just some little sickness that you have that week. Jesus wants to help you. He wants to perform that miracle in your life, and so we should never diminish the quality or the impressiveness of the miracle that he wants to perform.

In fact, I would encourage us all to invite Jesus into our lives and to ask him to perform some miracle, something small. Again, whatever it might be that we need, he wants to be there with us. And then if he can come into our lives, through our invitation, and perform that miracle, we’ll be able to do what the mother-in-law was able to do, stand up, rise, and serve one another. And then everyone in our company, our family members, our friends, our coworkers will benefit from us, and from the miracle that Christ has performed in our lives. Amen.