What impresses you about John’s words in chapter 2? Jesus seemed to be reluctant to get involved with the wedding arrangements. But I wonder what the servants discovered as they participated and observed. Did the wedding celebration continue without much fanfare or dos everyone know what Jesus had done? As we live our lives, who really knows how God is weaving His story into our story? Can others see what is happening? One take away for me is that Jesus wants the best for us, but not everyone may notice what is happening. Often His best cannot be measured and calculated. The wedding celebration is a huge contrast to how Jesus reacted to the temple’s market place activities. His passion for purity and holiness is unmatched!
“Do you see the great spiritual lesson for us? We’re just beat up old water pots that the Lord wants to fill with water—the Word of God. Then we can ladle it out to others. Inexplicably, when that water leaves the water pot and gets to those for whom He intends, the water becomes the wine of joy. That joy is the work of the Holy Spirit.” - J. Vernon McGee
“When the essence of the gospel is stripped down to the afterlife or to a glorious but strictly individual personal decision of faith, it’s not what Jesus described as the good news about his kingdom come. And predictably, there’s no real urgency to see our lives oriented toward a more loving and just way of being in the world. (…) At the core of the gospel, then, is the “making right” of all things through Jesus.” - Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
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