November 21, 2025 3:00 am
The Bible describes marvelous things as events that generate awe or wonder, often referring to miracles or unexpected occurrences. The Lord Jesus Christ performed one of his most amazing miracles, making perfect eyes for a man born blind, yet the Pharisees refused to believe. Similarly, modern intellectuals reject the evidence of a personal creator in favor of chance origin, demonstrating their unwilling ignorance and lack of excuse.
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. A Marvelous Thing. The man answered, and said unto them, Why here is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. John nine thirty. A marvelous thing in the Bible is something that generates awe or wonder.
Sometimes it refers to a miracle, but more often to something very unexpected and remarkable. But the most marvelous thing of all is that unbelievers still persist in their unbelief. In our text passage, the Lord Jesus Christ has just performed one of his most amazing miracles of creation, making perfect eyes for a man blind from birth. As the man testified to the frustrated Pharisees, Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind? Yet these religious intellectuals, so opinionated in their prejudices, refused to believe what they saw and heard.
Similarly, When the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things, i.e., marvelous things, that he did, they were sore displeased. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. One of the saddest verses in the Bible is John 1.10. He was in the world, and the world was made by him. And the world knew him not.
And he came unto his own, and his own received him not. Even when he raised Lazarus from the dead, the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death, because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus. Modern intellectuals are still the same. Rejecting the overwhelming testimony of the created complexity in the cosmos to the fact of a personal creator in favor of an impossible scenario of chance origin. Herein is a marvellous thing.
Such people willingly are ignorant and without excuse. second Peter three five and Romans one twenty. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. And please rate and review so more listeners can find us. To support ICR's ministry, visit icr.org/slash donate.
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