A thought by Mark Batterson (2014-09-02) from his book, The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible (pp. 175-176). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Here is what Mark says leading up to this thought, “We have a natural tendency to explain away what we cannot explain.” He then says, “The reason many of us miss the miracles that are all around us all the time is because we don’t have a prior memory to associate with them.” Mark is looking in this section of his book of the experience of the apostles out in a boat on the Sea of Galilee and the miracle of Jesus walking on the water. They had never seen someone walking on water and so there was no way that their mind would come up with that as a fact. They first thought He was a ghost. And wouldn’t that be true of you and me? My first thought wouldn’t be that Jesus would be walking on the water. I haven’t seen it so it can’t be true.
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...