Lent 2019 | Day 12 | The Sacrificial Life - Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

SCRIPTURE

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On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” - John 2: 1-11 (NIV)

Jesus replied, “My dear one, don’t you understand that if I do this, it won’t change anything for you, but it will change everything for me! My hour of unveiling my power has not yet come. - John 2: 1-11 (TPT)

REFLECTION

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(Ponder and grow in your awareness of Jesus’ life of sacrifice by reflecting on the following questions.)

Jesus, as The Word you didn’t have a rite of passage into becoming, you always were...

What did it feel like to be pushed out into something you weren’t expecting?

...into something you were born for, but didn’t feel ready for?

Jesus, when your mother asked you to bring a solution to the problem, did you know what you were going to do?

What level of risk did you experience when you told the servants to fill the jars with water?

Did the Father and the Holy Spirit tell you what was going to happen? Did you have to wait and see?

RESPONSE

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The fact that you did this for me, that you struggled with the tension of being God and man, that you allowed yourself to be pushed into something that you might not have felt ready for, and that you counted all things lost for my sake inspires me and moves my heart toward you in love.

I say with Paul:

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 3 7-14 (NIV)