Another Saturday...Another Wedding.
Have you ever been to a wedding reception - the party after the wedding?
Most wedding receptions are filled with good food and laughter; lots of dancing and music; cake and drinks; and a sense of hope for what will come. Wedding receptions are in a word: FUN.
The party hosts of the wedding reception are generally the parents of the bride and historically they would invite people into their home to celebrate the union of the couple. Friends and family would come from all over to celebrate the young couple and their new start in life.
Before Jesus officially began his ministry he and his friends and family went to the wedding in his neighborhood. During the reception, the wine quickly ran dry and there was concern among the servants:On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
Without being asked, Jesus' mother Mary turned to him and wanted him to intervene. But Jesus' response was much like how many of us talk to our mothers: “Woman,[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” Jesus wanted to enjoy the wedding and celebrate the couple. He did not want to make it about himself.
But Mary responded as many mothers often do. She ignored Jesus and pushed him to do what was right. "His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
And Jesus, as both the dutiful son and the Savior of the world, did what his mother wanted: "Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[b] 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
At this point, the amazing miracle of the Wedding at Cana is about to be revealed...Jesus has turned the water into wine...
They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
Jesus took ordinary water, in ordinary clay pots, and turned it into "choice wine". Jesus does the same thing with each of us...
He takes ordinary people - ordinary girls and ordinary boys - and transforms us into something
extraordinary. Jesus can do amazing things with the simplest of ingredients. You just have to allow him to fill you up to make the transformation complete.
Scripture lesson...
Fun Fact...
The phrase “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe” symbolizes continuity, optimism for the future, borrowed happiness, fidelity, and wealth or good luck, respectively.
Question of the Day...
What was the first wedding you ever attended?
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