Miracles and signs should be considered normal for a Christian, it should be an everyday thing.
A life with Jesus is truly a great adventure, I have come to realize that. No day is boring or the same. Every day God speaks in some way. Beautiful, special, bizarre or supernatural things happen daily. One day it is “WOOOAAWW-things” and other days smaller or funny things.
God is a God of detail and will often show His greatness not only through grand, spectacular miracles and signs, but also through smaller, almost unnoticed things. Keeping your eyes and ears open for His presence is therefore necessary.
What I have noticed is that miracles and signs are often a result of obedience to what God asks of you. And what He asks can sometimes be very crazy things, LOL.
The year of crazy things
In the summer of 2023 I got out of a relationship and remained single until early summer 2024. I took that time to recover, but especially to build my relationship with God. I have written about this before (https://comeseeaman.com/the-author-of-your-love-story/ ) because a very special time began then.
God gave me a promise very soon after the relationship ended: He had someone for me, a man after His own heart and a Biblical marriage. As the year went by, I healed old wounds, built my relationship with God and waited quietly for God to bring me the man He had promised me.
June 29th, 2024, He made our paths cross and so the rest of the year became a year of “crazy things” and lots of adventure, LOL.
After our first date together, we stepped into a tsunami of confirmations and blessings and therefore knew immediately ‘you are the one’!
A bizarre sensation!
Within a few dates we knew, we are getting married! We started working towards this on every level. Preparations for the wedding day and our future together were made, and he officially asked me to marry him 😊.
We knew right away that we would live in his house, this house was not yet “finished” and so we started to build it together to make it completely our home. The idea of leaving my safe “Jerusalem”, I postponed for a while. It was a house that I had also received from God in a special way seven years earlier after a very difficult time of a divorce.
In this house and in this place I found my peace and was allowed to start over with my children. Even during and after a relationship where I got in to after my marriage, I held on to this house for years. This was my safe haven, my place, my home and giving that up for someone was a “no-go” for years. And when this relationship also ended in the summer of 2023, I praised God that I still had my own safe home.
However, with the meeting of the man that God had given me in the summer of 2024, everything was completely different.
We knew immediately that God wanted us together and if we wanted to go on this new path with God and with each other. Letting go of my own house was a logical next step.
We wanted nothing more than a life together and with God.
So, that day arrived.
Together we sat behind my laptop and filled in the details online to cancel my rent. Pressing the send-button did not go by itself, LOL. But eventually I took the plunge and sent the form with which the cancellation of my rent became a fact. I cried like a little child, and my sweet husband comforted me with the words: “this is also a step of faith”.
Once I caught my breath, I discovered that I had just given up my house for someone I had known at that moment for only fourteen weeks!! And I immediately calculated that we would know each other for twenty-four weeks at the upcoming weddingday!
Reckless and thoughtless
With our human peanut brains, it can seem like God asks us to do the craziest things sometimes. I mean, marrying someone you’ve known for twenty-four weeks is pretty crazy, right? LOL.
From a worldly perspective it seems reckless and thoughtless, but our God is not of this world, and He leads from a completely different dimension. Following Him is anything but reckless and thoughtless, but rather ordered, things are accompanied by peace and quiet and never chaos or strife.
Even though what He asks of you seems idiotic or not at all smart to your human mind, you still have a deep peace inside, and you know in the depths of your soul that what He asks of you is not so crazy at all.
Exciting, yes! But crazy, no.
Like little children
“People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.” – Mark 10:13-16
Jesus also describes here that we as adults may also be like children and come to Him. Children are pure, honest and sincere, open and often have no fear. They trust a person without question. Trust is a sign of surrender, of faith that the other has the best intentions for you, and children can follow someone in complete trust.
In this way we may also come to God; pure, honest and sincere, open and without fear, following Him with complete trust in Him.
When you read the stories in the Bible, you see that God sometimes asks very strange things of people there too. Things that you sometimes really don’t see the connection or link with the human mind. Things that the world can think “that person has had a blow from the mill”, which is what we say in the Netherlands 
about someone who seems to have lost his mind😊.
about someone who seems to have lost his mind😊.One of the craziest stories is of course the story of Noah.
God asks him to build a boat in a place where it has never rained! Noah then continues to build obediently and stubbornly for a hundred and twenty years, despite the fact that his environment fools him daily for a hundred and twenty years. Then God performs a miracle (Genesis 6:13-22).
“So make yourself an ark of cypress wood” - Genesis 6:14
And what about the Israelites, they followed the command that Joshua had received from God; “walk around the city of Jericho seven days and do this without speaking a word (Joshua 6:10). Joshua and the people obeyed, and then God did a miracle.
“Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”– Joshua 6:2-5
Trust Him
The point is; do you trust God enough to obey Him and follow Him in what He asks of you? Which was also true for my husband and me: yes we had only known each other for fourteen weeks when I gave up my home, yes we had only known each other for twenty-four weeks when we got married, no we did not know everything about each other and did not know each other well, but we both know the One who gave us to each other.
We both know the One who brought us together, we both clearly understood His voice and His direction, we both trust Him, and so we obeyed, we stepped into the adventure, and signs and wonders followed right after us.
I want to encourage you, when God asks “crazy things” of you; look at it through the eyes of that child in you; open, pure, without fear but your trust and your eyes focused on Him. Think about Who it is who asks this of you and know that He is completely trustworthy, has your happiness in mind and not your misfortune, wants to give you a hopeful future (Jeremiah 29:11), loves you and always has the best for you.
When you know this deep down in your soul, the things He can sometimes ask of you are not so crazy at all 😉.
