Jesus, Lessons for Life 4
Miracles
With part of his team now assembled, the Gospels reveal that his ministry began to include miracles. The first of these was at a wedding, where at him mother’s request, he turned water into wine.
Jn 2:1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
:2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Dear woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so,
9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
Verse 11 gives us the reason for this miracle. Jesus was revealing his glory through the action, thereby strengthening their faith in him. They were seeing live and in person that this man, Jesus, who was fully flesh and blood just like them, was also fully divine.
Key Lesson — Jesus, though fully human, was and is fully divine.
This lesson is important for us to understand. We may never in this world understand fully how it could happen, that incarnation that brought our divine God into his fully human form here on earth, but it is a central concept that we see as absolutely true.
Blessings,
Larry
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