The Unexpected Miracle

Dizziness… anxiety… fear…

These have been tangled up in my body for six long years. They’ve shaped my days, my decisions, my movement, even my hopes. I have prayed — oh, how I have prayed — for physical healing. I’ve prayed for the dizziness to stop, the slosh to settle, the sensations to finally let my nervous system rest. And for most of this journey, that’s been my singular focus: God, please heal my body.

But recently something in me shifted.

I found myself praying a different kind of prayer — one I never imagined praying over this.“Lord, help me accept the physical situation I’ve been in for so long. Help me walk through it with You, even if nothing changes.”

It wasn’t a prayer of giving up. It was a prayer of opening up — opening my hands to what God might want to form in me even while my body remains fragile.

And then Jesus’ words began echoing in my mind: “For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?” (Matthew 9:5)

That question stopped me in my tracks. Because suddenly, I saw what Jesus was revealing: Healing the body is not necessarily the greater work. Forgiving, transforming, strengthening the heart — that’s the greater work.

Healing the body is not necessarily the greater work.

It made me wonder: What if the bigger miracle isn’t physical healing — even if that comes someday? What if the bigger miracle is the grace God gives to walk through my life as it is? What if comfort doesn’t come from a healed body but from the God who walks beside me in an unstable one?

For so long I’ve viewed healing as the miracle, the pinnacle, the finish line. But Scripture keeps whispering something different.

You see, healing reveals God’s power, but enduring with faith reveals the glory of God.   Healing changes the body, whereas sustaining grace changes the heart.   Healing happens with just a word from God in a moment, but endurance in Christ is shaped over time in the fire.  Trust has a chance to grow in uncertainty. 

Endurance in Christ is shaped over time

When Paul begged for his thorn to be removed, Jesus didn’t say, “Let Me take it away.”  He said, “My grace is sufficient for you… My power is made perfect in weakness.”  And somehow, in God’s upside-down kingdom, that was the greater miracle.

I’m starting to see that the spiritual miracles — the unseen ones — are the ones Jesus consistently highlights.

HE is the One who gives me courage when I feel unsteady.   HE is the One that gives me peace that makes no sense.   And HE is the One who gives me strength to walk through dizziness, not just freedom from it. 

HE is the One

Maybe the miracle isn’t that I one day wake up without dizziness.  Maybe the miracle is that even dizzy, anxious, and afraid, I’m learning to walk with God.  Maybe the miracle is that He is reshaping me, steadying me from the inside out, and teaching me to see His presence in the places that feel the most unstable. 

And maybe — just maybe — the miracle isn’t waiting for me at the end of this journey.

Maybe I’ve been walking in it the whole time!

THINK ABOUT IT

How might your story change if you began to see sustaining grace — not instant healing — as a true and powerful miracle?

In what ways has God already sustained you through things you never thought you could endure?