Note 2 at Ac 27:44: We know that this deliverance was definitely of God (Ac 27:23-24), yet there was no supernatural intervention. The storm was not miraculously calmed, as Jesus had done (Mr 4:39), and the boat was not instantly transported to some safe haven, as had happened with the disciples (Joh 6:21). God delivered them, true to His promise (Ac 27:24), but in a natural way. It would have been very possible for some of these people to think that their deliverance just happened without God's intervention.

Likewise today, many people don't discern that it is God who delivers them, because sometimes He accomplishes it through natural means. But just as surely as the Scriptures reveal that this seemingly natural shipwreck was God's doing, so many things that just work out naturally in our lives are the working of God. A refusal to accept nothing but the miraculous intervention of God can cause a person to miss God's supply.