Through the Bible - 2 Kings 12-14, John 6:1-27
Good morning,
For today's verse we'll go to John chapter 2 where we find the first miracle that Jesus perfomred.
Before we get there I'd like to ask a question, who do you think (what person) knew Jesus best at this point in time? I would think that it would still have to have been his mother. She had seen him grow up, I'm sure as an obedient child and not only that, I'm sure she found him as someone that she could depend upon. As he grew I'm sure more and more often she turned to him for help with all kinds of things and he never let her down.
Now they are in the public arena, at a wedding, and there is a problem, they are running out of wine. Who do you think she turns to?
John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it." NKJV
It would take time, but the disciples would have to learn this kind of faith and trust. What they were about to see would go a long way towards them learning just who it was that they were now following.
Look at the disciples response after they had seen how Jesus turned the water into wine.
John 2:11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. NKJV
Regarding this and other coming signs MacArthur notes, "John used the word "sign" here to significant displays of power that pointed beyond themselves to the deeper divine realities that could be perceived by the eyes of faith. By this word, John emphasized that miracles were not merely displays of power but had a significance beyond the mere act themselves."
Having just gone through a series and study on prayer I can look back at these events and see that what we need to be learning, as Mary did, that you could go to Jesus with just about anything, Too often, we try to handle it all on our own, and will only go to Him as the "last resort" as in yesterday's passage where the disciples said "don't you care if we perish"? Jesus has the answers and can guides us in the every day circumstances. Learning to do so will better prepare us for the bigger events, the storms, to come to Him early and often instead of a last resort.
The disciples witnessed His power, His authority, and His glory in changing the water into wine and "believed".
Has He done something to you that "went deeper than the acts themselves"?
In Christ,
Mike
mikevw@bellsouth.net
John 2:1-13
Water Turned to Wine
2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."
4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come."
5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."
6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, "Fill the waterpots with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And He said to them, "Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast." And they took it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he said to him, "Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"
11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.
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