The Word This Week
John 2:11…
You’ve just done what Jesus told you to do.
You stand amazed at what has taken place. Who can you tell about it? Who would believe you if you did?
You filled pots with water, first at Jesus’ mother Mary’s prompting to do whatever Jesus said, and then you did what Jesus said. And there you stood waiting beside some large stone pots filled with the water you just poured into them just because Jesus told you to.
What next? Oh boy, it only gets more interesting. Jesus said to take some of what you know and all the servants involved know only to be water to the master of the feast. What for?
Shockingly, what you knew to be water has been transformed into wine. When? How? And more shockingly, it is so highly regarded by the master of the feast he calls the groom to congratulate him. And there you stand, amazed, dumbfounded, incredulous, and wondering how and why any of this has happened, and why you were somehow permitted to be part of this.
This is the life of the servant of God.
There is nothing greater. And these servants didn’t even know Who Jesus was or why Jesus had come. And yet, under His aura of humanity as the Son of Man, they obeyed Him, up to the brim.
But when did your participation in such a glorious thing become controversial? When did the transformation of water into wine become an issue?
It seems, due to the potential of wine to cause drunkenness, many remain more confused over this particular miracle than any other Jesus performed. Why would He do anything which could even possibly cause harm? People wonder whether this even was wine. Could it have been grape juice? Could it have been wine watered down to the extent it could not cause drunkenness?
People comfort themselves with those possible notions, but it isn’t likely to be the case. In their day people drank wine at weddings. People drank wine in their homes. People drank wine because of a desire to celebrate, and people drank wine out of practicality, because drinking water very often contained dangerous pathogens. People knew wine when they tasted it. The master of the wedding feast certainly did. He regarded it as, “good,” because it was good. Wine. (‘Oinos’ in the Greek.)
Wine does have the potential to cause harm but so does almost everything in God’s creation if taken to sinful extremes. That God knew Adam would eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did not prevent him from creating it.
Pastor Bill
You’ve just done what Jesus told you to do.
You stand amazed at what has taken place. Who can you tell about it? Who would believe you if you did?
You filled pots with water, first at Jesus’ mother Mary’s prompting to do whatever Jesus said, and then you did what Jesus said. And there you stood waiting beside some large stone pots filled with the water you just poured into them just because Jesus told you to.
What next? Oh boy, it only gets more interesting. Jesus said to take some of what you know and all the servants involved know only to be water to the master of the feast. What for?
Shockingly, what you knew to be water has been transformed into wine. When? How? And more shockingly, it is so highly regarded by the master of the feast he calls the groom to congratulate him. And there you stand, amazed, dumbfounded, incredulous, and wondering how and why any of this has happened, and why you were somehow permitted to be part of this.
This is the life of the servant of God.
There is nothing greater. And these servants didn’t even know Who Jesus was or why Jesus had come. And yet, under His aura of humanity as the Son of Man, they obeyed Him, up to the brim.
But when did your participation in such a glorious thing become controversial? When did the transformation of water into wine become an issue?
It seems, due to the potential of wine to cause drunkenness, many remain more confused over this particular miracle than any other Jesus performed. Why would He do anything which could even possibly cause harm? People wonder whether this even was wine. Could it have been grape juice? Could it have been wine watered down to the extent it could not cause drunkenness?
People comfort themselves with those possible notions, but it isn’t likely to be the case. In their day people drank wine at weddings. People drank wine in their homes. People drank wine because of a desire to celebrate, and people drank wine out of practicality, because drinking water very often contained dangerous pathogens. People knew wine when they tasted it. The master of the wedding feast certainly did. He regarded it as, “good,” because it was good. Wine. (‘Oinos’ in the Greek.)
Wine does have the potential to cause harm but so does almost everything in God’s creation if taken to sinful extremes. That God knew Adam would eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did not prevent him from creating it.
Pastor Bill