John 2:9-11 - Water turned into wine

2:9,10

The master tasted the wine. He was obviously very impressed, for he remarked to the bridegroom on the quality of the wine. The common practice was to serve the best wine first, then the lesser quality stuff, when people would be less able to test, or less bothered about, the quality of the wine. There, of course, various attempts by many to explain away the miracle, i.e. to deny that water was turned into wine. If you will excuse the pun, none of these “explanations” hold water. 

2:11

This section is now drawn to a close, with John saying that this was the first of the signs. The miracles were not mere “conjuring tricks”, nor merely done for show. They were signs through which Christ revealed His glory. This is true, but we can sometimes go to the other extreme, and belittle the fact that the signs helped people. One of the overriding features of the Bible and the gospel is that God loves people, He cares for us. Our root problem is to forget, or even deny, that. There are two vital elements to what the signs demonstrate. One is the power and glory of God, of Christ. The other is His concern and care for us, and the two go together. If we focus on only one aspect then we miss the truth.

“His disciples believed in Him”. When God does things in our life the purpose is that they should increase our trust in Him. So often He will get us through some situation, then at the end of it we will just breathe a sigh of relief that it is all over and learn nothing, so that the next time we encounter a similar circumstance we go through the same cycle. We need to learn from situations, in particular God’s care for us, and His ability to take care of us.