Doing It Perfectly

And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!” John 2:10

This miracle brings out many a sermon for the seeming carnal nature of it. For us these many years later it becomes easy to judge this turning of water into wine as unnecessary, almost sinful even, if you come from one of those no-drinky Pentecostal churches of the 70's. I'm not going to argue the alcohol thing today, instead let us see the perfection in quality and quantity that came from that miracle of our Lord Jesus.

In our verse for today, the master of the feast had to comment on the unexpected quality of this wine. And being for a wedding feast, this does not mean that the former wine was bad or of terrible quality itself, only that the wine Jesus made was so far superior. Then there were six waterpots of up to 30 gallons in volume. Did they really need 180 gallons of wine after having already drunk all that they had? Perhaps that does not matter so much as that the Son of God provided more than enough and of far greater quality than was normal for such an event.

In His great love, perhaps our Lord cannot just provide a little thing of normal quality, but must instead do it perfectly, greatly, and magnificently. What is your need today? Praise and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ!

Bucky

P.S. Internet service here was restored yesterday afternoon (4/17) after going down last Friday morning. It was a strange time.