You have asked for a miracle that your daughter might be advanced from ### to ###, for her salary seems a poor reward for her effort and talent. It is well that you have not gone to the world’s counselors, but have brought this desire before the Lord in the fellowship of His people. Yet pause and ask: what is the true miracle we most need? Is it an increase of wages, or the working of grace in the heart? Consider the miracle of the loaves, Christ feeding the multitude in an orderly and abundant manner. That same Jesus is grand in emergencies and still delights to provide for His own. Should it be for her good and His glory, He can open the door no man can shut. Remember, “since Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, what He did at one time…is the index of what He is prepared to do again should the need arise.”
But do not let the amount stamped on a cheque eclipse the riches of Christ. The poor bent woman in the synagogue had no intercessor, yet Christ saw her, called her, and loosed her infirmity in a moment. He is no less observant of your daughter’s situation. He may, in a single second, turn the hearts of those who interview her, or overrule their decision. “To save a soul from death and Hell is a more rapid work than for the lightning bolt to fall from Heaven”; so too, to alter an earthly circumstance is not hard for Him. Yet I implore you, do not be as those who see the miracles and still oppose the Miracle Worker, who would use Him for a better income while neglecting the weightier matter of the soul. Have faith in Him who does great marvels, and trust Him to work a miracle of mercy even for this temporal concern, but seek first His kingdom.
Consider also the servant with one talent. He despised the little, buried it, and was condemned. Your daughter has received something, thank God for it, and use it faithfully. Many a child of God has found that a modest beginning, sanctified by prayer, becomes a wide door for service and provision. The miracle of the loaves teaches orderliness and contentment: they sat down in ranks and all were fed. Christ is not the author of confusion or covetousness. Let your daughter be found diligent where she is, and if it be His will, He will say, “Come up higher.” But if not, His grace is sufficient.
Above all, remember that the greatest miracle is that a sinner should be made a saint. Manasseh, that loathsome monster of guilt, became a miracle of grace through genuine repentance. If your daughter knows the Lord, she is already a miracle, a mass of miracles, and her life is hid with Christ in God. That is a treasure far beyond any tier of employment. Go to your knees, cry out with the psalmist, “Have mercy upon me, O Lord,” and lay this desire before Him with holy fear and trembling, for the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him. May the Eternal Spirit apply His truth to your soul, and grant you to trust the great Miracle Worker for all that concerns your household, both for time and for eternity.