Sunday 29 Jan 2023

January 29: John 2:1-11

Key Verse: John 2:11
What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Devotion:
I think this is one of the miracles which does not get enough attention – probably because Jesus did not want attention drawn to it at the time. The wedding feast He was attending did not go to plan because someone had not accounted for the amount the guests would drink – I’ve been to a few parties like that where the guests have drank a whole lot more than they should have!

But Jesus was not there to point fingers, judge people or anything like that. He was there to talk to people and try to get them to seek the truth in their hearts; but when His mother heard of the shortage of wine, she stepped up and got Jesus to make all the difference…

Jesus chose the simplest of things to turn into the most complex of things. Water is about as simple as it gets. Wine is more complex, but a fine wine is so much more complex because of the chemical reactions and releases of the sugars and tannin which makes a fine wine taste like it does. Nothing is impossible for God to achieve, and He was not about to show anything different here.

This was the first miracle the disciples recorded and so is know as Jesus’ first miracle. But the fact Mary was willing to tell the servants to do exactly what Jesus said suggests she knew what he could do already. Now it was the disciples turn to believe because of the miracle. When we have our prayers answered by God, we become believers with a reason for believing...

Points to Ponder:
Have you had prayers answered?

Do you have a reason to believe?