S&F-The Wedding Crashers

Wedding planning is tough.  People send back their invitations so hopefully at least the planner can know how many people are there to plan for food and drinks.  But I think sometimes weddings end up having more guests than planned.  Hopefully there will be enough food and drinks for those wedding crashers.

This doesn't seem to be a new problem.  2000 years ago Jesus showed up at a wedding in Cana and brought all his friends.  The hosts probably didn't expect this and ran out of wine.  Mary, Jesus's Mother, asked him to take care of getting some more wine.  He initially said no (I guess there was no liquor stores in the day).  But his mother didn't let him off the hook, and Jesus completed his first miracle, turning water in to wine for the wedding.  This was probably the incident that started his public ministry and eventually led to his death on the Cross.

There is much to say about this incident as written in John's Gospel.  Mary, knowing her son, not allowing him to let the opportunity pass to help the wedding party.  The fact that the wine that Jesus made was just wine, but the best wine.  The miracle itself of changing water into wine is obviously a big part of the story.

The part that struck me as I was hearing the Gospel today is the fact that Jesus said it wasn't his time.  That "His hour had not yet come."  But in the end Jesus did what he was asked to do.

How often do we ignore our calls from the Lord?  How often do we think its not our time, that we are too busy, or that we will get to it later.  Maybe we just don't want to do it.  But we need to listen and be ready to do whatever God asks of us.  Just like Jesus did that evening in Cana when his Mother asked him to help, God is asking us to follow him by doing helping out here on Earth.  If Jesus can stop what he was doing to preform a miracle, we should be able to follow God's instructions today.