The Divine Story of Jesus and You: The Wedding

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We are continuing our miniseries, “The Divine Story of Jesus and You.” The scripture text for today is from John Chapter 2, which is Section 2.8 in your booklet, available for free at www.plusnothing.com. This scripture is called the wedding at Cana. Jewish weddings at the time of Jesus were bound by tradition and culture. The wedding ceremony would take place late in the evening after a time of feasting and celebration lasting for days. At this wedding, they had no more wine. Jesus, as Divinity, performed a miraculous sign and changed water into wine.

We started this miniseries by exploring the three components of God’s story: the necessity of revelation, the indispensability of reconciliation, and the exhilaration of restoration. We now see God working out God’s story through the everyday reality of the wedding. God becomes more aggressive about reconciling the world unto God. God takes advantage of an everyday human problem to get a more serious commitment from you and me. Jesus, Divinity in the flesh, will not carry out the mission alone; Jesus will need us as convinced coworkers. God chooses problems as an opportunity for self-revelation of God. Through the miracle of additional wine, the disciples put their faith in God. Their faith convinced them that God can be trusted. God uses problems to direct us and change our direction. God uses problems to correct and teach us, not to punish us. God uses problems to protect us from greater harm.