Joh 2:1 On the third day
there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2
Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they
ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."
4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My
hour has not yet come
Some wedding! Things
were just getting into full swing and they run out of wine! Most of us have
been to wedding receptions where the beer flows freely. Just imagine the
embarrassment of the father of the bride should the wedding hall run out of
beer! There likely would be some major grumbling and a lot of people leaving
early.
Well, in biblical times,
it was more than that. It was a serious offense to fail in basic hospitality.
Failure to provide enough wine at a wedding was more than a minor social
embarrassment.
Bless Mary’s heart. The
mother of Jesus finds Him and says, “They have no wine.” We know from other
biblical passages that Joseph and Mary were poor and perhaps this moved her
with compassion for the hosts. So, she
turns to Jesus for help in the situation.
Some of those things
that Mary had “pondered in her heart” about her Son being the Son of God suddenly
surface at this wedding in Cana.
Her statement about the wine
was more than a statement, it was a prayer, and Jesus recognizes it as such. His
answer is a great lesson for us as we come to Him with our own prayers!
He replies to the
request with a question! And notice this! He does not reply to her as His
mother, but as a “woman!” That links Mary to the rest of mankind. It puts her
in the same boat as you and I. When we bring our petitions before the Lord as
Mary did here, Jesus asks us the same question. “What does your prayer request
have to do with me?” We need to answer that question when we pray! And when He
tells Mary that “His hour has not yet come; He is talking about the hour in
which He will be glorified on the cross and through the empty tomb.
So His real question to
Mary and all others who would pray to Him
is, “What does your prayer request have to do with bringing glory to
God?”
Answer this question,
the next time you petition Jesus, It will revolutionize your prayer life.
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