Transforming Ordinary Moments: Hope in Christ's Presence

And the fact that this is the very first sign, it's a miracle, but it's a sign in John's gospel. Well, it's a sign because a sign is a revelation, a public revelation of who Jesus is. And Jesus is revealing that he is the one who can take things off the rail and put it on the rail. That he has the power to turn whatever is water in our lives into wine. [00:32:41] (27 seconds)  #ExtraordinaryRevelation

Just knowing that can lower your blood pressure. Just knowing that when, because we all know there are going to be times when our world gets off, falls off the tracks. There's going to be times when we get bad news coming our way. And here is a story that tells us what to do in the midst of that moment, right? We reach out to Jesus and we say, hey, you know what? This is beyond my capacity to fix. I can't fix this. [00:33:11] (31 seconds)  #JesusRestoresOrder

Even if we kind of think Jesus might be reluctant, he knows our desperation and he knows those moments and the story is saying that he will enter into our place and somehow transform this moment of sour bread, broccoli, horribleness and bring it into a moment where at the end of it, when someone tastes it, they can say, wow, wow, what happened here? This is like great. [00:33:51] (35 seconds)  #FirstSignOfHope

But if we look, if we look closely to those moments where we do come to Jesus in the midst of our trial, if we look closely with his eyes, eyes, we'll see that he is at work turning water into wine. Sometimes the things that I've come to Jesus about, like fix this or fix that, and he doesn't, somehow in the trial and in difficulty, he's doing a greater work. Sometimes he's transforming us. [00:39:37] (40 seconds)  #MiracleInterpreted

It's like Job, you know, he's doing a deep inner work in us, in the suffering that we're walking through. He's turning water into wine. Sometimes that's our own character. It's the fire of the difficulty that starts to burn away the dross in us and begins to purify us. [00:40:17] (22 seconds)  #ThirdDayBanquet

And so what I've come to know and what I just, simple faith is that when I come to Jesus in those moments where things are water, on behalf of people who I know are in difficult times, I just come to him and I appeal to him and I just have faith that somehow the outcome will be good. It may not be the outcome I define as good, but I don't, I cannot believe that the scripture would be wrong that says, call on the name of the Lord and he will save you. He will put things back together again. [00:40:38] (36 seconds)  #CommunionPromise

So he can glorify his name. and help us to believe that somehow this is put at the very beginning the very first sign in order that when we look at the very last sign his cross and his death and his resurrection we could look at these in light of each other that jesus death on the cross and his resurrection is a means for us to enter into the great banquet with christ to have this incredible forever banquet. [00:43:18] (30 seconds)  #NewCreationInChrist

Jesus wants a huge party where nothing goes off the rails ever again where we love each other we're kind to each other there's no more sickness there's no more suffering there's no more and that's what this is pointing to and that somehow when we come to jesus he's able to take the things that are going off the rails and put it on the rails. [00:44:00] (28 seconds)  #BlessedToBeABlessing

We pray as we go from this place that we might go in a way that would honor you and continue to glorify your name. Grant us the new wine, the wine of your Holy Spirit. Fill us afresh to overflow with your love and your patience, your kindness, with your goodness, with your spirit. [01:01:35] (22 seconds)