morning thoughts - miracles

As I was thinking about Nephi, I followed the usual thought process of how he surely exists due to the impossibility of Joseph Smith to fabricate him and his entire story. And while I was thinking about the sort of world He lived in I started imagining scenes from movies I had seen including his martyrdom.  This stirred up scenes from other movies I had seen but, not yet formed a conclusion on. One such was a scene from the show Vikings, where a priest told a miraculous story of how God intervened, and so the Vikings asked him to pray as they killed him to see if he would intervene again, and I formed a conclusion that God did truly exist, and obviously hears and answers each prayer, but he does not offer up signs and wonders to those who seek such proof.

When Jesus himself performed miracles he would comment or even weep that his Father would allow such a great miracle to be performed. And Jesus made it well known in His life that miracles were not done for the convincing, in fact, they were hid for the most part. And I recall another scripture that says that miracles are a product of faith not the other way around.