What was the Greatest Miracle that Jesus performed during His visit?

What was the greatest miracle that Jesus performed during His visit to us here in the Valley of Tears?

Was his greatest miracle the transformation of water into wine at the wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11)? Was it the healing of the sick (Luke 5:17-26)? Was it bringing clay birds to life (Infancy Gospel of Thomas)? Was it the raising of the dead (John 11:1-45)? Was it the feeding of the five thousand (John 6: 1-14)? Was it the walking on water (Matthew 14:22-33)? Was it the transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-9)? Was it the Resurrection (John 20: 1-20)?

All of these and the other miracles do not compare to the greatest miracle of Jesus. In comparison, they are small potatoes - trifles. Why? They only show us the power of God. They do not show us the far side of the moon (Wikipedia) - the hemisphere of God hardest for us to understand. THERE IS SOMETHING MORE SIGNIFICANT TO DIVINITY THAN POWER - MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT. Our conception of divinity as power is incomplete. It is flawed - defective. A huge lacuna is missing from it. There is a hole in our understanding of God. Divinity is also love - a mysteriously intransigent, inexplicably persistent and radically stubborn love (Isaiah 55:8-9) (Psalm 8:4-8).

The greatest miracle was our failure to piss him off.

The evil that we did to him ought to have, at the very least, pissed him off. It ought to have antagonized him. It ought to have earned us a place on his shit list. It ought to have provoked his natural instinct for justice. It ought to have triggered his reflex for revenge, retaliation and retribution. It ought to have transformed him into our enemy - into a misanthropic monster - into the God who hates us. It ought to have shifted God from the pro-human team to the anti-human team with the serpent and his minions. When the fuse is lit, the bomb ordinarily explodes. But, remarkably, it did not. The fuse worked but the bomb was a dud  (Isaiah 55:8-9.) Love made it a dud. The evil we did to him did not extinguish his love for us or reduce it by even the slightest degree (Isaiah 55:8-9). He clung to his love for us, held tight and refused to let go. The greatest miracle is the good news of great joy - very good news for us indeed.

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What was the Greatest Miracle that Jesus performed during His visit?
What was the Greatest Miracle that Jesus performed during His visit?

What was the greatest miracle that Jesus performed during His visit to us here in the Valley of Tears? It is not what you think. It is our failure to piss him off. It is our failure to earn a place on his shit list. We tortured and killed him. He forgave us. Forgiveness is the pleasant surprise that emerged from the violent collision between Jesus and the evil that we did to him on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. Surprise! Our God is not like us. Forgiveness for the evil that we did to him is the window through which we catch a glimpse of God from here on earth. It is the foundation of our understanding of God. It is the good news of great joy. It is the epicenter of Christianity. It is the source from which everything Christian is derived. It is the gold standard by which the genuine is distinguished from the spurious - by which the fair is distinguished from the foul. To know forgiveness is to know God. Forgiveness for the evil that we did to him is the high fidelity representation of the reality of God that Jesus released into the Valley of Tears to raise us from the level of the most miserable and hideous of loveless beasts scurrying, in poverty, around the ruins of Eden to the level of prosperity with our loving God and his Holy Family in paradise. The knowledge initiates the process of our deification. The God who fashioned us out of the dust with his hands put himself into the hands of the dust to leaven the dust with the yeast of divinity. The yeast of divinity is forgiveness.

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What was the Greatest Miracle that Jesus performed during His visit?
What was the Greatest Miracle that Jesus performed during His visit?

What was the greatest miracle that Jesus performed during His visit to us here in the Valley of Tears? It is not what you think. It is our failure to piss him off. It is our failure to earn a place on his shit list. We tortured and killed him. He forgave us. Forgiveness is the pleasant surprise that emerged from the violent collision between Jesus and the evil that we did to him on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. Surprise! Our God is not like us. Forgiveness for the evil that we did to him is the window through which we catch a glimpse of God from here on earth. It is the foundation of our understanding of God. It is the good news of great joy. It is the epicenter of Christianity. It is the source from which everything Christian is derived. It is the gold standard by which the genuine is distinguished from the spurious - by which the fair is distinguished from the foul. To know forgiveness is to know God. Forgiveness for the evil that we did to him is the high fidelity representation of the reality of God that Jesus released into the Valley of Tears to raise us from the level of the most miserable and hideous of loveless beasts scurrying, in poverty, around the ruins of Eden to the level of prosperity with our loving God and his Holy Family in paradise. The knowledge initiates the process of our deification. The God who fashioned us out of the dust with his hands put himself into the hands of the dust to leaven the dust with the yeast of divinity. The yeast of divinity is forgiveness.

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