Jesus' Love - Other Miracles

Besides healing, Jesus performed many other miracles, though in some cases, it might be tricky to figure out how those miracles are manifestations of Jesus' love. For example, Jesus turning water into wine could arguably an act of love toward those who received the wine or perhaps toward His mother, Mary, since she asked Him to help, and feeding the multitudes loaves and fishes miraculously was certainly an expression of love for the multitudes, but how was Jesus showing His love for others in walking on water or cursing the fig tree? Maybe Jesus walking on water was a sign of love for Peter, since it gave him an opportunity to test his faith, learn a lesson about faith, and have a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As for the fig tree, I'm almost at a loss. Cursing the fig tree didn't really help anyone directly, but maybe it helps us by forming a powerful object lesson against the danger of hypocrisy? That's a bit of a stretch. Some miracles don't really fit the mold of manifestations of divine love.

But maybe that's okay. People, including Jesus, are allowed to do things just because they want to. Not every act a perform performs has to be an act of love for someone else. Maybe Jesus walking on water was just a semi-practical way to get onto the boat after it had already launched. Maybe Jesus cursed the fig tree just because He felt like it. As long as doing so didn't hurt anyone, I don't see anything wrong with it. Granted, it wasn't His fig tree. One can assume that the fig tree belonged to someone else, who now has one fewer productive fig trees. Then again, that fig tree wasn't producing figs anyway, so maybe there was no actual loss.

But regardless of whether certain miracles were acts of love or not, other miracles certainly were. Jesus showed His love for us by granting us the miracles of creation and of deliverance from evil, He continues to show His love for us by healing our souls and hearing our prayers, and I'm sure we can expect more loving miracles from Him in the future. Jesus is a God of miracles and a God of love. Even if a few of His miracles weren't expressions of love, I'm willing to bet that most of them are.