Why is it “hard” for Hashem to perform miracles, the children asked. Didn’t He make the world. Why can’t He just change it?
Well, when He made it everything was created just so, and for good reason. In addition, the creation is a complicated system, with layer upon layers of spiritual “code” behind everything we see. Changing something down here means changing the code. Suppose the king would suddenly rule that everyone should switch the direction they are driving in and drive like in england. What a ruckus that would make! The cars are built all wrong for it, the road signs are facing the wrong way, the traffic lights are unintelligible and so on. So too, changing the nature of water that it split involves changing a great many things, and completely altering the scheme of how Hashem really wishes the world to run in. Hashem is reluctant to do so.
Another parable is a computer program; not everything can be programmed; much depends on the underlying code. So too, the spiritual matrix in which the physical world exists in, the Operating System of the world, if you wish, is specific and limited. Perhaps withing the framework of this world only so much can be done. Hashem can rewrite the code from scratch, but is He interested in re-creating the world?
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