Despite being a very busy Man, Jesus always cared for people and took time off to attend a wedding party, He had been invited to. Typical of these special events, it sometimes rains when everybody does not want it to.
On this occasion, the most important beverage - wine- ran out. It did not only run out but this happened at the wrong time - just as the party was reaching its crescendo!
When Mary, Jesus' mother and a member of the organising team, was approached with this embarrassing problem, she knew where to go. She went straight to Jesus and said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:3b-5 [ESV]
Friends, I want you to focus on Mary's four word "prayer" to Jesus - "They have no wine". Unlike most of us often do in our prayers, she didn’t say anything more or accuse anybody for poor planning or incompetence. She didn’t try to suggest a solution. She simply stated the problem and "cast her cares" onto Jesus. On the way out of the wine storage room and back into the party, she instructed the servants "Do whatever he tells you".
Today, God is inviting us to present our needs, problems or anything we can’t handle to Jesus in very simple words - "Lord Jesus, thank you for always answering my prayers. Lord I need ....... e.g. healing"
As we pray let’s listen to whatever He tells us - e.g. "Go to the doctors again!" When we hear His instruction we should just obey without complaining, arguing or doubting.
As it turned out in our wonderful story above, Jesus performed His first miracle - water was turned into wine!
Friends, it was not just some ordinary wine, but the Holy Spirit took time to record in the Bible for us, that it was the best wine!:
When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course, the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over. “A host always serves the best wine first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!”
John 2: 9-10 [NLT]
Farai Mutsambiwa
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