Jesus Is Miraculous

Do you pray and live outside the confines of our earthly expectations, and what is considered realistic by our society? It is important to understand that the God we pray to does not have boundaries, and is certainly not under any constraints. This is a challenging perspective to attain for ourselves in the world we live in. In looking through Jesus’ first ‘sign’ of who he really was and is, we can see the true miraculous nature of our God:

John 2:1-11:

“On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.”

It’s a miracle we’ve all probably heard before many, many times – after all, it is his very first, and is the one in which Jesus begins the miraculous nature of his ministry on earth.

The authority Jesus has is clear, all he does is ask the servants to fill the jars with water, and upon tasting the contents, wine – and good wine at that – is present. As Jesus sees the wedding party’s problem he does not only provide a solution but he provides it in abundance. The party needs wine, and for the wedding hosts, this would have been extremely embarrassing and disrespectful to the guests. But Jesus gives them wine, defying the earthly possibility of it transforming from water, and he also gives it with a great taste. He addresses the problem of no wine, yet go furthers as to give them very good wine indeed.

In this passage we see Jesus perform a miracle to lavishly and abundantly bless others. The problem is a lack of wine, yet Jesus goes beyond to bless the party goers with a great wine. The master of the feast even remarks how typical expectation is defied in this better wine appearing in the party later rather than earlier!

Not only does Jesus exceed the boundaries of what is possible on this earth (water into wine), but we see him go further as to exceed the boundaries of our expectations (the wine is considered the very best!). Jesus’ first miracle is remarkably apt in how we see him act in this abundance.

We know and worship a God who does not know boundaries; his powers are limitless and in absolute plenitude. God works with an endless provision. In his marvellous and miraculous nature, we see him go beyond earthly expectations and possibilities.

In Christ’s death upon the cross, not only was all sin that has ever been and is to be has been destroyed and defeated, making us righteous before God (an impossibility for us to do), but we are given life to the full, and the promise of an inheritance where we can be made whole in God’s complete Kingdom (exceeding every expectation).

The miracle in absolute abundance.

Let us pray and live with the knowledge and perspective that our God works in miracles to lavishly bless us, beyond any of our expectations!