Why God doesn't do more miracles

Vincent Bujor
September 24, 2026

Why God doesn't do more miracles

“But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”

Luke 16:10

When I was about 10 years old, I stood in front of a big lake and thought about Jesus’ miraculous walk on the water. I said to myself, “I wish I could just run on the water right now… All these people standing nearby would be impressed! I would be in the news! All my friends would hear about it! And then I could tell them about Jesus! I know God can still do a miracle today! Why doesn’t He do it?”

Back then, I had no idea why Christ actually walked on water and performed countless other miracles. It was never to create hype. It was always to glorify His Father. Jesus didn’t work miracles for self-display. But the ones I wanted to see as a kid were (kind of) all about myself.

We love miracles

We all love miracles and, honestly, once we experience them, we can get pretty used to seeing them. That was the case for the Israelites in the wilderness. After they had complained about being hungry in the desert, God in His mercy gave them manna. He didn’t just provide it for a week or two, “the children of Israel ate manna for forty years” until they came “to the border of Canaan” (Exodus 16:35). Six times a week, food fell from heaven. On Friday, the double portion came, in preparation for the Sabbath. On Saturday, the fields were empty. Eight miracles every week, for forty years straight.

In total, the Israelites saw 16,640 miracles in the wilderness – all related to God’s provision for them – and yet they murmured, complained, and rebelled.

Experiencing miracles doesn’t make you a solid Christian. That’s why Jesus warned the Pharisees that even a resurrected person can’t persuade a stubborn heart – we have God’s word and that’s more than enough.

So… no miracles?

Does this mean that God doesn’t like miracles? Has He stopped the miracle business? Absolutely not. He “is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). But He doesn’t want your faith to be built on it. Real faith isn’t built on an experience. It isn’t built on a feeling. It is solely built on God’s word which defines reality (Romans 10:17, Genesis 1:3). The time will soon come when experiences and emotions will influence us in such a powerful way that we will be led astray if we don’t know the Word.

God is still performing miracles for His children today. In Communist Romania, Pavel’s dad walked through the air across a broken bridge. In Madagascar, Rama’s wife awoke from a coma and was healed. And in Germany, an angel in human form guided me through a high-security facility so I wouldn’t miss my train home.

God does it in times of need. He does it when His name is glorified. He does it when we step forward in faith, staying true to His principles and risking something for His name’s sake.

“We are not to establish our faith on the hope of seeing miracles. Satan will work miracles to accomplish his purposes. We must rely on a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ It is the word of God, and perfect, sanctified unity that are to make Christ’s waiting ones complete in him.”

The Southern Watchman March 1, 1904, paragraph 30

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