Today I listened to a talk about Jesus turning water into wine. It was the first of many miraculous signs he performed. I'd never really thought about it, but why did they run out of wine in the first place? Weddings were huge events and something many people went to, in fact in their culture weddings reflected the village the people were from. Running out of wine would not have given a good impression of their village and would definitely have been very embarrassing. The person looking after the banquet was probably rather stingy and trying to cut corners by not getting so much wine. The fact is that guy who had been stingy and not got enough wine, ultimately got all the praise (for the wine Jesus had transformed from water) from the bridegroom - not Jesus. He took the credit for what Jesus had done. That sounds rather horrible, but really that's what we do with Jesus too. We get the credit for what he has done for us. When Jesus died on the cross and rose again, he took our sin and turned it to righteousness, he took our shame and turned it to honour, he took our weakness and gave us strength and fear is now replaced with courage. Jesus took the water and turned it to wine. Jesus takes whatever we give him and turns it to something beautiful. Reason no. 477 :)
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