I was watching a video the other day in which a man was talking about churches that host AA meetings in their basements. He said:
"If you want to hear about miracles, go upstairs. If you want to see miracles, go downstairs."
That has certainly been my experience.
In Alcoholics Anonymous, I've watched men and women surrender, take responsibility for their actions, and become people almost unrecognizable from who they once were. Not because they learned to hide their flaws better, but because they were genuinely transformed.
The miracles happen every day.
They don't usually come in the dramatic fashion of Moses parting the Red Sea. More often, they arrive quietly. Like a person deciding to change their life one day at a time. They commit to a healthier way of living, remain disciplined, and months later someone says, "Hey, have you lost weight?" The transformation wasn't sudden. It happened gradually, through countless small decisions made in the right direction.
The same is true spiritually.
At some point, we stand in front of the mirror and honestly admit:
"This version of me needs to change."
The journey begins with surrender. We come before God and say:
"Lord, I don't have this. Lead me according to Your will, not mine."
Then comes confession—not simply admitting mistakes, but acknowledging that the person we've become was often shaped by fear, ego, pride, resentment, and selfishness. We stop defending ourselves. We stop blaming others. We take ownership.
And then, in a sense, we hand that old version of ourselves over to God and say:
"Lord, I've done all I know how to do with this man. Can You make him into someone better?"
Little by little, the old skin begins to fall away. The shame we carried for years loses its grip. The burdens we were never meant to carry are placed into God's hands. We become less concerned with protecting our image and more concerned with living honestly.
Over time, something remarkable happens.
God begins transforming us into someone we never could have created on our own.
I've seen it happen so many times that it no longer surprises me, yet it never ceases to amaze me. Some of the people I trust most today are men and women who once lived lives of chaos and destruction but surrendered and allowed God to rebuild them from the ground up.
That is the miracle.
Not that God changes our circumstances overnight.
That He changes us.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
— 2 Corinthians 5:17
If you want to see a miracle, spend time where broken people are honestly seeking God. You'll discover that miracles are happening every day—one surrendered life at a time.
