The First Miracle

Does anyone remember (if you were the oldest) when your mother, grandma, or uncle or neighbor would turn to you and say: "Your the oldest, so your in charge until we get back" then they would turn to the others and say something like: "Do whatever he tells you to do". Haha! That is a lot of power for a kid and way to much temptation. Now, I wasn't so bad, but my Dad had a long hallway in the house and I have a younger brother and sister that are 10 and 12 years younger than I am. I figured that it was quite fun to have them run from one end to the other to see if they could make it before I was able to launch a stuffed animal and either lodge it between their fast moving little legs and watch 'em go down ... or hit 'em in the right place in the head and have them go down face first. If I did it right, I could nail my little brother, who was a little slower and younger and then watch him bounce off the wall and into my sisters legs and watchher go down too, and all with one stuffed bunny rabbit. Then load them back up to the starting line and start it all again. Hours of fun I tell you ... I am still smiling, even now, at the thought ... and my younger siblings didn't really have to go through all that much therapy, which is always a plus. The electro-shock portion (and don't let them tell you any different) knocked years off the overall length of the therapy.

The first miracle recorded in the bible took place at a Wedding at Cana. Mary, the mother of Jesus, realizing that the wedding feast had run out of wine, turned to Jesus and then to some of the servants and said: "Do whatever He tells you to do!" Sound familiar? That sometimes can sounds like ... you gotta be kidding me! Do whatever He tells me to do? Just listen to some control mongering megalomanical Deity ... just like that. Well, in this case, He told then to take some waterpots filled with sink water, up to the master of ceremonies and have him drink from it. They did exactly like He said and when the master of ceremonies did drink from the ordinary sink water, it not only tasted like wine, but fine and extraordinary wine.

We have to ask the question. What if ... just ... what if? What if He really does want the best for us? What if he wants to take our ordinary, sink water lives and turn them into something extraordinary? What if the instructions in His word allows us to take our ordinary marriages and transform them into something extraordinary? Our ordinary money into something extraordinary? Our love into something remarkable? What if obediance to doing exactly or whatever He tells us to do, is not for Him, but to allow us to actually have the freedom to reach our greatest potential. What if He actaully does love us more than we could ever imagine.