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Water into Wine

Most people are familiar with the first public miracle of Jesus, at a wedding reception, where He turned water into wine. This act averted a disaster, as running out of wine was a societal faux pas that the family would never live down. So Jesus intervened. 

John 2:7-8 tells us: Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”

When the master of the feast (something akin to our wedding planners) tasted the wine, he was amazed at how good it tasted. As any wine aficionado knows, the best wine is aged wine, but this wine was only water two seconds ago. Jesus didn't just make wine out of water, He made it as if it had been around for years. 

This miracle was so much more than just some sleight of hand trick; Jesus genuinely made something incredible out of something ordinary. It also shows us that God's relationship to time is different than ours. When He created everything in six literal days 6,000 years ago, the earth and its inhabitants were already mature. Adam was not an infant, but an adult. The trees were not saplings, but bearing fruit. I bet if someone cut down a tree in the Garden of Eden there would have been a hundred annual rings. 

With this first miracle Jesus saved the day, and the wedding. But He did more than that. He showed us that God is a God of transformation. He can take plain water and turn it into something much better in an instant. He can also take our sinful lives and turn us into something much better in an instant. He can turn water into wine, and turn sinners into saints.

He continues to transform us after salvation. This part is not as instantaneous, as we will spend the rest of our lives turning into the kind of people God wants us to be. If you have never been saved, let the God of Transformation change you into a saint, and if you have been saved, keep working on transforming into who you are meant to be. 

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