[The Glory Unveiled]
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he [Jesus] tells you.” ( John 2:5 )
The verse is an excerpt from an incident at the wedding in Cana. The wine at the wedding had run out and Mary, the mother of Jesus had asked Jesus to do something about the problem. For wine to run out before the wedding ended was a serious embarrassment to the bride and the groom. So Mary intercepted to save the ceremony embarrassment. Now, Mary had done her part by informing Jesus, the solution giver. But that was all she could do. The unnamed servants in the verse actually were the bridge between the crisis and the solution, if at all there would be any. The servants had to do something that would bring about the solution everyone at the wedding feast would hope for. They were the channel through which the solution could emerge. Their simple duty of doing what Jesus would ask them to do was that bridge. If they had failed to comply by the instruction given by Jesus, there feast would have ended in shame. In our lives as individuals, our compliance to the word of God is what brings into reality what we hope for. We may pray as much as we want for anything we want, but obedience to the instructions of God is the hand that brings in view and at hand, that need. Let us not just pray, let us obey.
Prayer_Bead: Father of Life, draw me into intimate fellowship with You. Guide me by the Holy Spirit into absolute obedience to your will.
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