Isn't It Just Like GOD!!!

Well, to start off, I have been doing this six-week Bible study on my own, for about 2 1/2 months now. I was being very diligent about doing it every day for a while and then I would get lazy and not get up in the morning for my devotion time. Then I would be really good for a week or two and then not so much! Yesterday, I began week six. I should have been done a month or so ago! This morning was day 2 of week 6. The study is about hearing God's voice and being obedient.

Anyway......

Last night, Benjamin and I went to Safeway to pick up a few things. While shopping he asked me if I knew when Jesus turned water into wine. And, I told him that I did...it was the first miracle that Jesus performed and it was at a wedding. Then Benjamin added a few details, like "Yah, he had the guys fill up the barrels with water and then he went 'Phssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh' (with hand pointed toward the barrels) and turned the water into wine!!!!" And, of course I corrected him (like the party pooper that I am) and told him that Jesus can just think it and it will happen. No sound effects are necessary. No fun am I!!!!

So, I thought that was cool that we had a little talk about Jesus at Safeway, completely brought up by my 8-year old.

THEN............this morning, in my study, I was directed to what story in ALL of the Bible?????

Come on, take a guess!!!!!!!

Yep!

John 2

From Water to Wine 1-3 Three days later there was a wedding in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. Jesus and his disciples were guests also. When they started running low on wine at the wedding banquet, Jesus' mother told him, "They're just about out of wine."
4Jesus said, "Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn't my time. Don't push me."
5She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."
6-7Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, "Fill the pots with water." And they filled them to the brim.
8"Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host," Jesus said, and they did.
9-10When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn't know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, "Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you've saved the best till now!"
11This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

This happens so often in my life. Some say that they are coincidences, but I don't believe in coincidences. I believe that God is the orchestrator of all things! I believe that he uses these types of occurrences to encourage us, confirm in us a point He is trying make, reiterate information that we already know to be true, to challenge us to look deeper, and to just make us smile and say "God, you are so funny!!!" Because when this happens to me, that is one of my first responses. God cares about everything. Even my conversation in Safeway with my youngest son! How crazy is that?

AND...this passage is an amazing lesson in obedience. The servants were told by Jesus to fill up the barrels with water. They put the water in there and they knew that it was only water. Then Jesus told them to take a cup of the water to the head of the wedding party. Water...not wine. They risked being yelled at, ridiculed, fired, possibly spit on when the head of the party tasted the water. They took a huge chance. They didn't know Jesus from Moses! He hadn't performed any miracles yet! But, they obeyed. They got to be part of the first miracle that Jesus performed! This was his "coming out"! And the servants were first hand participatory witnesses! What a huge blessing!

God, please help me to keep my eyes on you and obey you in all that you ask of me, so that I am pleasing to you!!!!