September 9 - Jesus Will Provide the Wine You Need

0:00Chapter 2 On the third day, there was a wedding at Caner in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine, and Jesus said to her, �Women, 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.� Now, there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rights of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, �Fill the jars with water.�

1:02And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, �Now, draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.� So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew, the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, �Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine, but you have kept the good wine until now.� This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

2:10Jesus will provide the wine you need, John Bloom. Why did the wine run out at the Cana wedding? Did the hosts plan unwisely? Did uninvited guests turn up and exceed their capacity? Did the hosts run short of funds to provide enough wine? The Bible doesn't tell us, but whether it was a failure of human wisdom, strength, or resources, all familiar failures to us, there was a need that the human hosts could not meet. Unknown to the hosts, the Lord of hosts veiled in flesh was a guest at this wedding. He knew, though, and she knew that he was able to meet their every need, so she informed Jesus about the situation, and glorious grace flowed freely. But the glory that Jesus manifested at this wedding was more than his omnipotent authority over nature. For those who could see at that day a deeper, brighter glory of the triune gods of bounding all sufficient love for foolish, weak, synimpovrished people blazed forth.

3:12Lord of Jesus' fullness, the wedding guests received grace upon grace. They drank the very best earthly wine ever created, made by the creator of grapes himself. But more than that, the wine they drank freely was a foretaste of the gospel. Jesus knew the time for making the real gospel wine of Calvary had not yet come. But this wedding wine poured out of vessels of purification for shadowed that best of all wines, which would be served after humans had done their sinful, insufficient best to meet their need and failed. This wine would flow freely with infinite abundance from the purest vessel of all time for the greatest wedding of all time. That's why, when you run out of wine today, when you fail in wisdom, power, or resources, or fail to meet the righteous requirement of God's law, or fail to love the Lord with all your heart, you need not fear. Jesus, your Lord, your groom, the master of the great wedding feast, has infinite power

4:15and infinite love and is able to make all grace abound to you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians, chapter 9 verse 8. Trust him. Jesus will provide the wine you need. Just do whatever he tells you.