4/7/09 John 2

In John 2, scripture talks about how Jesus performed his first miracle.  This miracle was to turn the water into wine.  When you look at the verses 7 - 8 says "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,"  Scripture says that servants simply did what Jesus told them to do.  However, if you think about it, this isn't something that can be easily done.  First of all, the water was very rare at this time, therefore, first Jesus is telling them to waste significant amount of water.  Secondly, Jesus asked servants to draw the water and give it to the master of the banquet.  These servants know that they are in need of wine and they could not possibly understand the reasoning and it should have sounded non-sense to the servants.  However, these servants did not refuse Jesus' word and followed even it did not make any sense.  I'm not sure if these servants had faith in Jesus word but they did what Jesus told them to do.  I think this is something we lack in our lives.  Jesus is someone who we cannot understand in our terms, therefore, when Jesus tells us to do something, we should believe and do as what he tells us to do.  However, we tend to try to understand and comprehend in our own minds, and simple tend to refuse to believe in Jesus if we can't understand him in our own comprehention.