5/6/5021 – John 2:1-5 [NIV]

 

5/6/5021 – John 2:1-5 [NIV]

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

There is a strange symbiosis between faith and miracles. Miracles help us have faith, and Jesus often remarked how our faith prompts God to do miracles. The story of Jesus’ first miracle is certainly strange. He was just beginning to choose his disciples and had no plans to reveal his glory by turning water into wine. He said as much to his mother who pointed out to him the dilemma at a wedding.

Mary knew who Jesus was. God the Father chose to impregnate her because she and her fiancé were from the line of David, and she willingly surrendered herself to be the mother of the long-awaited Messiah. Her response to her son’s curt reply was to turn to the servants and order them to do whatever he told them to do. Mary believed in her son, and that changed everything.

Jesus told his disciples on several occasions that he only did and said what the Father told him to do and say. The odd beginning of his three-year ministry began as a response to Mary’s complete faith in her son.

What this realization does is to make me take another long hard look at my own attitude toward the Christ living in me. My belief in Him must match my belief in His power to do the miraculous.

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