PrayerBits
A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church
Sunday
Scripture lesson: John 2:1-11 The Wedding at Cana
Time to Reflect: This is one of the stories where it is important not to worry about what isn't said but to focus on what is said. The story does show Jesus in a real life human setting, a wedding, and he and his mother have a really human mother/son kind of interaction and his first miracle, in John's Gospel, is creating wine (not grape juice!) for a wedding.
Moving through the day: Picture yourself at the wedding and watching the proceedings. No one seems bowled over by the event, the only comment is why this wine wasn't served before everyone became drunk! How does all this connect with your view of Jesus?
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ 4And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ 5His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ 6Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. 8He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. 9When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom 10and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.’ 11Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
