Speaker: Nick Wallsteadt

Theme: What I Learned at a Wedding

Weekend Music links on iTunes: All About You, God Is With Us, Your Love Never Fails, Like an Avalanche

Read: John 2:1-9; Hebrews 8:1

Think: As we continued Timberlake’s message series called Biography: Everybody Has a Story, the account we focused on this week was of Jesus and the beginning of his public ministry. Like Pastor Nick said, this story can make us wonder why exactly it was included in the Gospel of John… Here’s what I’m sure of: It’s important for us to hear sometimes just about Jesus as a man, as Mary’s son, and as regular wedding party-goer. Not only about the amazing accounts like the Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17:2) or standing in the river with His Father’s voice proclaiming Jesus as His Son and the Holy Spirit visibly landing on His shoulder (Luke 3:22), not walking on water (John 6:19), but just hanging out at a wedding with His disciples and His family.

We don’t know the bride’s or groom’s names, if they were rich or important. Mary’s concern makes it seem that they were maybe cousins or uncles, some relatives. It’s interesting that the whole miracle was kept pretty much a secret. The passage never says the wedding party knew about it, only the servants, Mary, Jesus and the disciples. So, as Pastor Nick noted, why start Jesus’ whole story with a secret miracle at a hometown wedding?I think it’s because God wanted us to know He works in regular ordinary life…  where we live. Our worlds are mostly small, our needs are pretty common, but this story encourages us in knowing that Jesus can relate. He sees our daily needs, He hears our little prayers and if He sees and hears those, He certainly must be available for the big stuff, too!

Do: Talk to Jesus everyday this week, not as the One who is seated at the right hand of the Father on high (Hebrews 8:1) but as the wedding attendee who is asked to fix an embarrassing problem.

Pray: Jesus, thank You that You see and hear my every prayer, big or small. I entrust them all to You and Your love, care and miracle-working power. Amen.

The eDevotional is written each week by a team of volunteers from Timberlake Church.