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We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem all that was lost and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just evidence that He has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming. 
Timothy J. Keller

Since the beginning of time, people have always been tempted to do their own thing. When doing our own thing contradicts God’s will, His plans, or His desires for our life, we find ourselves separated from God. Wilful separation from God is a simple definition of sin.  

John 3:16 says that God loves the world and He doesn’t want us to be separated from Him. This verse describes this same separation as “perishing” or suffering. In other words when we are separated from God we are disconnected from the ultimate source of life. This means that the end result of this separation is death. But God wanted humanity to live forever in relationship with Him. So he sent His Son, Jesus to help us understand God’s will and to reconnect us back to God giving us the ability to live forever.  

The most amazing part about Jesus coming to earth was his willingness to “perish” or suffer in our place. He took the result or penalty of sin upon himself, and willingly went to a cross to die in our place so we would never have to experience death as a permanent separation from God. In fact he proved that physical death would not be permanent by rising from the dead.
Romans 5

His death and resurrection cleared the only possible path for all humanity to return to a relationship with God. This is why He said that He was the only way to God (John 14:6) because nobody has ever made the path back to God more accessible. The amazing thing is that the reason He did this, was simply because He loves you!