Sometimes, when I'm reading the scriptures, they sort of gloss over a miraculous fact or event, almost as if it wasn't a big deal. More likely it is explained that way because that's not the emphasis that God wanted on the story. It's not the moral He wants us to get from the message.
That being said, that doesn't take away the amazingness of it. Here is one instance. When Christ was showing them how to do the sacrament, he just broke bread:
"Now, there had been no bread, neither wine, brought by the disciples, neither by the multitude;" (3 Nephi 20:6)
So we figure there's a large congregation. I have to assume larger than the day before, at least, I would think, and there were 2,500 people there the day before! Christ just broke and blessed bread, that apparently came from nowhere! It's pretty amazing. And I love it. Perhaps this only emphasizes the real lesson, which was in the actual administration of the sacrament. It isn't focused on what they used (miraculous bread and wine that appeared out of nowhere), but rather that they actually did it at all, and the fact that everyone was able to partake.
I have had the privilege of seeing some miracles in my life. For the first time, as I'm writing this, I just got to wondering if the miracles have overshadowed other lessons that I should have learned. Perhaps, just like in these scriptural accounts, by not emphasizing some of the miracles, I could be helped to see the real lesson (or "another lesson") that God was trying to teach me at the time. That's going to take a little bit of thought.
Still, miracles are awesome!
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