What does it mean that God is a God of miracles?

Asaph then remembers God's works, indeed His "wonders of old" (v. 11). This would include creation, then God's dealings in the flood, His choosing and blessing Abraham, raising up the nation Israel, and showing His power in their deliverance from Egypt, bringing them through the wilderness into the promised land, and many other marvelous works of power and grace. Today we can add to these the wonders of the New Testament, the incarnation of the Son of God, His life of great goodness, His sacrifice of infinite value, His resurrection and ascension back to heaven.

The purpose of God in using miracles may be gathered from the words used in scripture to express them, namely, signs, wonders, and powers. As "signs" they witnessed that God had visited His people; as "wonders," arresting the attention of a godless world to His rights in it; and as "powers," as being superhuman and accomplished only according to His permission, and the working of His sovereign will.

But, further, while miracles were a confirmation of the word, which was the proper and express revelation of God's mind, they were also a testimony in and of themselves; for they told, not simply of power but of goodness, of God working in goodness in the midst of sorrow and misery, and that in the most definite and distinct way. "He had compassion on the multitude."

He quite recognized that God had wrought great wonders in the past, as the succeeding verses of the Psalm show. Still in saying, "You are the God who works wonders," he laid the stress upon the present, and that is the great test of faith. It is comparatively easy to believe that God has done great wonders in the past, and that He will do them in the future. To genuine faith God is a present reality: He is a God that is doing wonders today.

Certainly none dare question the prerogative, or right, of God to act as He pleases in the heavens, or on the earth, and it may be that even now He puts forth His hand to over-ride some law of nature locally, for the deliverance or succour of His children: but such action does not take the form of a public testimony… For it is manifest that a miracle of grace has been wrought in every soul delivered from Satan's power.

The Incarnation itself is the greatest of all miracles — "God manifest in the flesh" is the wonder of the ages… He who knows Christ as the incarnate Son of God has no difficulty about belief in miracles. Indeed, we may go further and say that he who knows the great miracle of grace wrought in his own soul, whereby he has been born again, has no difficulty about other acts of power by the same God who has given him a new life.

What wonders does He not accomplish in the hearts and minds of His saints? — lifting them out of themselves, in their littleness and feebleness, into the greatness and strength and love which is found in Himself. It is by faith that His people are enabled to endure, and out of weakness are made strong… Still it is God who does it, and faith on our side simply lays hold on His strength. And what wonders will He not accomplish in the days to come!