John refers to Jesus’ miracles as ‘signs’. They were not tricks to impress people, they were loud and clear declarations about something that God was doing. A miracle for someone was a sign of breakthrough for everyone. So, what was being declared in the changing of the water to wine? Jesus was doing far more than helping a group of people have a good time. He was declaring something. Wine was a symbol of joy. Jesus was declaring by this sign that the plain water of Israel’s existence was now being transformed into the wine of joy. And the sign is a sign for us also. Life can so easily take on the dullness of futility. We taste it when we wake up in the morning with an aching, void of any purpose. It is a feeling of blandness, of emptiness. Our hearts yearn for the wine of the joy of real life. Real joy comes from being at rest in the flow of God’s will; when you feel that you have been drawn into something bigger than yourself, something wonderful, something that will draw you along and that you don’t have to make happen. This joy is the feeling of waking up in the morning knowing that God has set out a wonderful pathway for you that day so that you will find joy even in the most mundane things of life. It is the joy of being in orbit around the sun of God’s love and favour. Your life can be transformed from dull water to the wine of joy.
Give your life to Jesus and ask him to change you from dullness to joy.
Read John 2:1-11
