Greetings Dear Reader,
There will be spoilers. This is your only warning. This BLOG series will walk through each episode of the first two seasons of the amazing show The Chosen available free to watch at the link. If you have not seen it, I encourage you to do so. It is by far the best adaptation of the Gospels to film I have ever encountered.
The wedding at Cana is one of my favorite stories about Jesus. It opens here with remembering the story of Jesus as a boy at the Temple and his parents looking for him. Then it shifts to the mother of the groom, filled with joy, preparing for the wedding feast. Her love for the groom and bride is overflowing. Mary is there to help.
Then we see Simon telling his wife Eden about going to follow Jesus and telling her of his miracle with the fish. They rekindle their own romance as they talk about going to Cana for the wedding. Cana figures greatly in my novel, The Judas Scroll. Cana is situated about a half day’s journey away from Nazareth.
The huge part of this story is the wine. It is an embarrassment to run out at a wedding. Of course, they do. Mary, Jesus’ mother., prevails upon Jesus to rescue the wedding. Jesus acquiesces after reminding her “his time has not yet come.” Still, he is subtle about what he does. Using the jars reserved for purifying the dead, he orders them filled with water.
Once done he makes the best wine the banquet master has ever tasted. Against tradition, it is served last and this is seen as a great honor by all. Only the servants know what has happened. Only later do we see the import of the imagery.
Jesus turns water into wine to save the reputation of a family. The next time we see him interacting so personally with wine he is preparing to save us all. He says he will not drink it again until he does so with us in the Kingdom. The wedding of Cana is more than his first miracle for us. It is the foreshadowing of the wedding yet to come.
Another message rose in my mind this time around. The contrast between Mary looking for Jesus and not understanding who his “Father” was when he was twelve and clearly knowing what he can do at the wedding astounds me. There will be other times when her concern for her Son overrides her understanding of his being God. At this moment, however, she lives out what Jesus will say. She knows God can and will provide, not just our needs but what is needed to celebrate and have joy. Mary often seems to forget who Jesus is. In this instance, she counts on his being who he is.
I must count on the truth of who Jesus is in every instance, Dear Reader. I must do what he tells me even when it seems odd or foolish. In the episode, Thomas comments that Jesus’ instructions offer no logical solution. Jesus responds, ‘There will be times when it will be like that.” I must remember the instruction to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you to do.” In this obedience will I find the very best there is to have. Besides, what he creates in us is for the purification of the dead. We are the dead he purifies. We are then the wine of joy he uses to draw others to life.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become
a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally
hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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Every human story is part of the great story that leads to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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