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It must have seemed like a terrible waste of time and
energy, going back and forth, back and forth emptying the buckets into the
pots.
Hey, guys, what are
you doing?!!! Don’t you know that the ceremonial
cleansing happens BEFORE and not AFTER the wedding???
Nevertheless, the servants kept doing what Jesus asked them
to do, nonsensical as it may have appeared to those who observed them.
Nonsensical as it may have appeared to them!
There is an incredible simplicity in the busyness of these Galilean
servants. They didn’t stop until the
waterpots were filled – not half way, not even two-thirds of the way, but to
the brim.
And with their simple, faithful work, the often despised and
neglected manual labor, they spelled one of the best sermons on the Kingdom of God
When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become
wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the
water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom, and said to him, “Every man
serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he
serves the poorer wine; but you have saved the best til now.” John 2:8-10
The ‘important’ people
at the wedding didn’t know it. The
headwaiter. The rabi who conducted the ceremony. The bride. The groom. Not even the mother-of-the-bride
was in the known!
But these
invisible, behind-the-scene helpers knew. They became the privileged insiders to the one of
the secrets of God’s own heart.
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