Devotion Talk 1/3/08

Tonight I read John 2.

I really enjoyed this chapter. It tells two great stories that tell many important facts that need to be known by everyone. The first story told is about Jesus turning water into wine. This message is point blank that Jesus and God can do anything. God can heal a person of deafness, muteness, or blindness. He can do anything:

"8Then he told them, 'Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.'

They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, 'Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.' "

When Jesus forces the merchants out of the temple, it shows that being angry is always sin, unless it is anger in someone who mocks God. These men had set up companies in a holy temple. Jesus was outraged and forced them out. Being angry at something petty is sin. But, this is not. Another thing in this is how Jesus foretells his death. He claims he will be brought down, but brought back in three days. I also enjoyed this part because it said that Jesus knew the way of men. This ties in with John one, when it says: "He was with God in the Beginning." This chapter says in a sense that Jesus knows the ways of humans because he was their at the time of their creation.

"20The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?' 21But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken."