JOHN 2:7-8

Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”.

TO PONDER

Have you ever been told to do something that you instantly questioned ‘WHY?’, maybe even read something in the Bible and instantly questioned its validity? Maybe you thought it was a waste of time, or maybe that it was just a bad idea, or even that it was just crazy?

Today’s reading was one of those moments. We don’t know what if anything the servants knew about Jesus, we do know that they had never witnessed Jesus performing a miracle, so we can only imagine what was going through their heads when Jesus told them to fill up the ceremonial purification jars, to the brim, with plain everyday water and then told them to scoop some of that plain everyday water out to take to the master of ceremony.

Now most of us reading this would already know what was about to happen, that the plain everyday water was about to become really good wine but these servants were caught in the in-between time of a God story. See, Jesus had given the servants commands without explanations, a plan without clarification. It seems as if Jesus didn’t even publicly pray over the plain everyday water asking the Father to turn it into wine. The servants were caught in the in-between time of a move of God, stuck in the unknown, between a command and the witnessing of the fulfilment of God’s plan.

Maybe some of us find ourselves in the in-between time of what will become a God story, we are asking God ‘WHY?’, we are unsure about what is happening, we can’t see the fulfilment of God’s plan but it's at these times we should follow the example of the servants and in the midst of the in-between we should just obey what Jesus has told us to do until we see that we were participants in a move of God.

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, I pray that even in the in-between times of life I will continue to follow you and trust in your goodness. Amen.

Today's devotion provided by Danny Brock, LifeWay Westside Church Planter