Our church will host a church wide dinner, inviting the community to come and join us this evening starting at 4:30 PM. Those of you that live in the area please join us. It will be a sizzling summer menu that includes sausages with peppers and onions, sweet corn on the cob, and plenty of dessert. It will be a blast. We are excited about this holy event. Our people prepare the dinner with much love and serve it with much joy.
Our Lord Jesus performed his first sign / miracle in Cana of Galilee at a wedding reception. Being with Jesus isn’t about being boring. Coming to Christ shouldn't be boring. If it is, you’re not following closely enough.
Rondal, a New Testament commentator, underlined this thought in the Interpreter’s Bible Commentary. Many people may be surprised by these amazing truths. First, it is a fact that Christ was present - they wanted him to be there, they had no fear that he would be out of his element or fail to fit in or that he would make others uncomfortable. Christ did not hold aloof from innocent human happiness, (a fact that many of his followers have forgotten with tragic results), making his Faith a more rigorous and stern thing than he ever did.
To speak plainly, some people don’t want to become a Christian because they think Jesus wants to "rain on their parade. Know this about weddings when Jesus lived – often lasted a week or more and it was an indulgence of eating, drinking, and wild celebration. yet we often make Jesus out to be boring. Jesus does His first miracle and the party goes longer and it’s better wine! Sounds awkward. If we're truly a Christian – truly a follower of Jesus – life’s often going to be dangerous and exciting. The master of feast tasted the wine and did not know where it came from – but the servant knew –
How often do miracles happen right under our noses and we don't know it.
The servant knew. How heartening is it that the servants were his fellow workers.
Still to this day he works this way, yet our Lord raises the profile of the servants. The servants don't raise their own profile, the servants don’t look to be honored, but that’s the way Jesus works –
John 15:15 – “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
Once the master lets us know what He’s up to, Once He gives us an assignment, once we are willing to be a servant, He turns the tables and we are no longer simply a servant.We have received a promotion. Even though we are still servants, we are a servant and more. He no longer calls us servant, He calls us His friends.WOW!
In Him.
Brown
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