There is an amusing story about a priest and a rabbi who are playing golf together for the first time. The rabbi soon discovers that the priest is an excellent putter. He also notices that before putting, the priest always makes the sign of the cross. Halfway through the course, the rabbi is losing by ten strokes. Consequently, he asks the priest if he thinks it will be all right if he too crosses himself. “Sure rabbi, go ahead,” the priest says. “But it won’t do you any good until you learn how to putt.”
The New Testament writers recorded Jesus’ miracles to teach us that when we have faith in Him we can live in hope and expectation of ultimate victory over sickness, death and evil in all its forms. The problem for us is that we tend to cross ourselves without learning how to putt. We tend to think that if God is going to win the victory, we’ll just stand aside…
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