Dumbing Down of the Miraculous II

I have been studying a lot lately on the miraculous ways God moves. Recently I read in a book the following: We avoid the reality of Christ's power in a number ways... We're tempted to spiritualize Jesus' power..... The stilling of the storm is about psychological storms in our lives. The healing of the lame is about solving emotional problems that cripple us. Jesus bringing sight to the blind is about God's ability to help us see our lives clearly. And so on and so forth. If we do that enough we begin to think the Gospel stories are nothing but metaphors, and metaphors primarily about us. I am guilty of doing this very thing. The gospels lose their power when we dumb them down to our level. The reality is that Jesus DID calm a real, physical, natural storm. The reality is that Jesus did PHYSICALLY heal the lame mane who came on a bedroll through a roof to see him. When Jesus spit in the dirt made mud and put it on the mans eyes, PHYSICALLY his blind eyes were opened. I think it is ok that we us these as metaphors for purposes of helping people, but we must never, ever forget that these were real miracles, physical miracles done by a real, physical Son of God, Jesus.