In The Reason for God, Timothy Keller reflects on Matthew 28:17, when the apostles met the risen Jesus on a mountainside in Galilee. I’ve added emphasis on a particular sentence that caught my eye below:

“When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted…”

[Miracles] lead not simply to cognitive belief, but to worship, to awe and wonder. Jesus’s miracles in particular were never magic tricks, designed only to impress and coerce. You never see him say something like: “See that tree over there? Watch me make it burst into flames!” He used miraculous power to heal the sick, feed the hungry, and raise the dead. Why? 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 redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power.