Can God fix things without changing them?

My “day job” is as a senior IT specialist. As such, I do a lot of technology reading. A post on the IT Project Failures Blog caused me to ponder the question: Can God fix things without changing them?

Yes, He most certainly can, but He doesn’t always choose to do so.

For example, consider Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52). Once he was healed, he could no longer beg. He was going to have to get a job. Same for the man at the Beautiful Gate in Acts 3.

Jesus told Peter to wait till he received “power from on high” before taking the gospel to the world (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8). If you read Acts 2, this led to a radical transformation of Peter and the brand-new Church on the day of Pentecost. What if God chose to radically “fix” 10% of the churches in America in 2009?

If we want something in our lives, bodies, families, or churches fixed, we have to realize that change may come with that fix. Are we prepared for that change? Or are we sticking by “We’ve never done it that way before”?

Doug