the Fourth Week after Easter
Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
John 2:1-12
The Lord Jesus has been invited to a wedding. But notice that this whole scene takes place outside the room where the feast is and nothing is said to us about those being married. All we know about them is that they had had the happy thought of inviting the Lord Jesus and His disciples to the wedding. Dear friends, are we able to include the Lord in all our activities? Would He always be free to join in our family celebrations and in our entertainments? He is the only one who can secure for us true joy, of which wine is a picture in the Word. Yet it was the water intended for purification which produced this wine of joy. This will be the way with Israel, when they are re-established, and it is thus with us too. We only taste spiritual joy in the measure in which we first practise self-judgment.
Man’s way is to serve the good wine "at the beginning" (v. 10). He is eager from his youth to enjoy all that life can offer. For with age, little by little, come worries, sorrows, decline and death. The best wine has been drawn first. The Lord Jesus acts quite differently. He has prepared eternal joys, which are not comparable in any way with the vain happiness of this earth, for His own. Let us not desire anything else.
