Daily Devotions
I love the confidence Mary has in her Son Jesus. When she discovers that the wine is running out, she goes straight to Jesus and asks for help. Why? On the surface, there’s no reason for her to do that. Jesus isn’t a wine merchant. He’s not even a local neighbor who might have a few extra skins of wine in His house. And He’s never yet done a miracle. So why does Mary go to Him?
I think it’s because Mary knows how dependable He is, from all their years together. She knows that Jesus is the one person you can always rely on—the kind of person who, if there was an alligator in the toilet, He would absolutely figure out a way to get it out.
And so she doesn’t waste time telling Him what to do. She just brings the problem to His attention and gets out of the way. And she recommends the servants to take their lead from Him. That’s enough.
And that’s enough for us, too, isn’t it? If we have a problem, we can take it to Jesus right away. We don’t need to waste time trying to fix it on our own before we ask for help. We don’t even need to tell Him what we think He should do. We can just say, “I need help. Please, Lord, help me!” and He will hear us. And we wait to see what He will do.
It might be something we’d never imagine in our wildest dreams. After all, look at what He did when human beings first turned away from God! The Lord didn’t do the obvious thing—kill us all and start over. No, He did the unexpected thing—got Himself born into our world as a human being Himself, lived and served among us, and then suffered, died, and was buried—all to break the power of evil over us, all to bring us home to God. When He rose from the dead He broke the power of death over us forever; and all of us who trust in Him will rise from the dead also, on the day when Jesus returns and calls us back to life. We can be absolutely certain He will do that, because that’s the kind of Person He is—completely and absolutely trustworthy.
WE PRAY: Lord, I have a problem, as You know. Please help me with it. Amen.
This Daily Devotion was written by Dr. Kari Vo.
Reflection Questions:
1. Name a really dependable person you know.
2. What is one problem you could bring to Jesus right now?
3. When has Jesus helped you with a problem before?