We are quickly drawn into the wedding scene of John 2. The tension for the bridegroom that the wine has been consumed bring's Mary before Jesus to ask for His intervention. I was again struck that Jesus did not jump into action. The text only says that it was not His hour. As so often happens when living with Jesus, things don't happen on our time table. He has the best one. Mary's confidence in Him is shown by her comment to the servants to respond to anything He asks.
Even in my aging process, I am not as rambunctious as in the past and not as quick to jump into action, but still I am usually way ahead of Jesus' timing of things. I have seen in too often in the past. Can we trust Him for the right timing?
Wow! Wine that was the very best. It had only aged maybe a half hour or so. The power of Jesus to transform water that would fall on the grape vines, be transformed into grapes, be picked, processed and aged for the peak flavor but at the command of Jesus it happens in minutes. That process takes years to happen and in the blink of an eye, it is the best. To believe that Jesus who indwells us by His Spirit can make transformations happen in us to that magnitude is frightening. Am I willing to let Him fill me? All the way to the top? So that the best of the best can flow out of me into those I live around, work with and the lost who have never tasted life like this.
The disciples believed. They were in the back of the house where the pots were being filled with water. They saw the whole thing. They tasted the wine that came from those large jars and were they amazed at it's taste. Who was this person they were walking with? They believed He was the Messiah.
Most of us have had that first taste of Jesus at conversion that was beyond anything we had ever had in life. But now after many years of walking with transformer of water and people, do I still remain overwhelmed by this Jesus who has power beyond anything we can imagine, or am I not seeing the signs, the transformations, the statements of life as anything out of the ordinary.
In reading these first 2 chapters of John, I long to be touched again and again this month by this Jesus who is the King of kings.
Steve
One thing that came to my mind as I reflected on this passage today is that I easily lose sight of the reality that Jesus has the power to transform people's lives, and that he does it regularly. Sometimes when I am facing challenges in making disciples, I get discouraged. But there is no need. Jesus does things I can't imagine.
ReplyDeleteIt's only when I remember his transforming power that I can face a situation in which tables need turning over and confrontation is called for.
Karry