Three days later there was a wedding in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus and his disciples were guests also. When they started running low on wine at the wedding banquet, Jesus’ mother told him, “They’re just about out of wine.”

4 Jesus said, “Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn’t my time. Don’t push me.”

5 She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”

6-7 Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, “Fill the pots with water.” And they filled them to the brim.

8 “Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host,” Jesus said, and they did.

9-10 When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn’t know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, “Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you’ve saved the best till now!”

11 This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum along with his mother, brothers, and disciples, and stayed several days. (The Message)

I love the story of the former drunkard who declared, ‘I have no problem believing that Jesus turned water into wine, because He turned beer into furniture in my house!’

Verse 4 may sound a bit rude to us. But Mary clearly did not understand it as a refusal, and she uttered the most simple, but powerful, word of counsel in the wake of it:

”Whatever he tells you, do it.”

That was the key to this miracle. The servants did exactly what Jesus told them to do, and the transformation happened. It remains the key to every miracle.

” My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27)

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, above the clamour and noise of this world, help me to hear your voice and do your will.

THOUGHT: “The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent.'” Alfred Brendel