Do Whatever He Tells You.

John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Having given us this grand introduction into Who this Jesus is: The Word, The Truth, The Light, The Life, and so much more, John begins to record several sermons He gave, statements He made about His identity, and special miracles He performed.  This first recorded miracle seems at first glance to be somewhat shallow or insignificant, but maybe that is the point: Are we willing to trust Jesus with the less important things of life? If we will not trust Him with those, we will not trust Him with the everlasting.  We also see here an introduction to what every miracle will require: Do whatever He tells you. Give Him full authority.  If He says: "Go wash this mud off your eyes," do so. If He says: "collect whatever food you can find," do it. If He says: "Take up your bed and get going," don't lay there and think about it. This matter of obeying Him, doing whatever He tells us, submitting to His authority, is what Jesus goes on to show by cleansing the temple and telling the religious leaders they had no right to question His authority. We need to do whatever He tells us, no matter how seemingly insignificant or how challengingly difficult.