At a simple wedding, Jesus quietly stepped into a practical problem and turned it into a moment that revealed who He truly is. John tells us this first sign didn’t just solve a shortage—it awakened faith and put Jesus’ glory on display in a setting most people would call “everyday.”

Bold Beginnings in Hidden Places

Jesus didn’t begin His public ministry on a stage, in a palace, or at a power center. He began at a family celebration, where joy and embarrassment hung in the balance. That’s encouraging: God loves to enter the places we might overlook—the kitchen, the calendar, the conversations, the ordinary pressures. And He’s not merely interested in getting us through; He’s intent on showing us Himself.

This is how He often works. “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise” (1 Corinthians 1:27). If you feel like today is small, repetitive, or unnoticed, you may be standing in the exact kind of place where Jesus loves to reveal His glory. Don’t despise the “little” moments—invite Him into them.

Obedience That Makes Room for Miracles

The servants filled the jars, and the real wonder happened in the path of simple obedience. They didn’t control the outcome; they just did what was asked. There’s a quiet power in that. Many of us want clarity before we act, but Jesus often gives clarity as we act—faith on its feet, not just faith in our heads.

Scripture repeatedly links God’s movement with our willing response. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart… and He will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5–6). And Jesus said, “If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” (John 15:7). Today, what’s the “fill the jars” step in front of you—an apology, a hard conversation, a renewed discipline, a quiet act of faithfulness? Make room for God by doing the next obedient thing.

The Glory That Deepens Faith

John says this sign revealed Jesus’ glory and His disciples believed in Him. That’s not just information—it’s transformation. Signs aren’t meant to end with amazement; they’re meant to lead to worship and trust. The goal isn’t merely that life improves, but that our vision of Jesus grows clearer and our hearts lean on Him more fully.

God still uses His works—sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle—to strengthen our faith. “We walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7), yet He graciously gives evidences along the way. Ask yourself: when God has provided before, did it move you closer to Him or just make you feel safer? Jesus doesn’t only give gifts; He gives Himself. And His glory is the greatest gift.

Father, thank You for revealing the glory of Your Son. Strengthen my faith today; help me obey quickly and trust deeply—use my ordinary moments to point me to Jesus. Amen.

GOD BEING WHO HE is must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else.

Whoever seeks other objects and not God is on his own; he may obtain those objects if he is able, but he will never have God. God is never found accidentally. Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13) .

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used. His mercy and grace are infinite and His patient understanding is beyond measure, but He will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain. He will not help men to attain ends which, when attained, usurp the place He by every right should hold in their interest and affection.

Yet popular Christianity has as one of its most effective talking points the idea that God exists to help people to get ahead in this world. The God of the poor has become the God of an affluent society. Christ no longer refuses to be a judge or a divider between money hungry brothers. He can now be persuaded to assist the brother that has accepted Him to get the better of the brother who has not.

A crass example of the modern effort to use God for selfish purposes is the well-known comedian who, after repeated failures, promised someone he called God that if He would help him to make good in the entertainment world he would repay Him by giving generously to the care of sick children. Shortly afterward he hit the big time in the night clubs and on television. He has kept his word and is raising large sums of money to build children's hospitals. These contributions to charity, he feels, are a small price to pay for a success in one of the sleaziest fields of human endeavor.

One might excuse the act of this entertainer as something to be expected of a twentieth century pagan; but that multitudes of evangelicals in North America should actually believe that God had anything to do with the whole business is not so easily overlooked. This low and false view of Deity is one major reason for the immense popularity God enjoys these days among well-fed Westerners.

The teaching of the Bible is that God is Himself the end for which man was created. Whom have I in heaven but thee? cried the psalmist, and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee (Psalm 73: 25) . The first and greatest commandment is to love God with every power of our entire being. Where love like that exists there can be no place for a second object. If we love God as much as we should surely we cannot dream of a loved object beyond Him which He might help us to obtain.

Bernard of Clairvaux begins his radiant little treatise on the love of God with a question and an answer. The question, Why should we love God? The answer, Because He is God. He develops the idea further, but for the enlightened heart little more need be said. We should love God because He is God. Beyond this the angels cannot think.

Being who He is, God is to be loved for His own sake. He is the reason for our loving Him, just as He is the reason for His loving us and for every other act He has performed, is performing and will perform world without end. God's primary reason for everything is His own good pleasure. The search for secondary reasons is gratuitous and mostly futile. It affords occupation for theologians and adds pages to books on doctrine, but that it ever turns up any true explanations is doubtful.

But it is the nature of God to share. His mighty acts of creation and redemption were done for His good pleasure, but His pleasure extends to all created things. One has but to look at a healthy child at play or listen to the song of a bird at sundown and he will know that God meant His universe to be a joyful one.

Those who have been spiritually enabled to love God for Himself will find a thousand fountains springing up from the rainbowcircled throne and bringing countless treasures which are to be received with reverent thanksgiving as being the overflow of God's love for His children. Each gift is a bonus of grace which because it was not sought for itself may be enjoyed without injury to the soul. These include the simple blessings of life, such as health, a home, a family, congenial friends, food, shelter, the pure joys of nature or the more artificial pleasures of music and art.

The effort to find these treasures by direct search apart from God has been the major activity of mankind through the centuries; and this has been man's burden and man's woe. The effort to gain them as the ulterior motive back of accepting Christ may be something new under the sun; but new or old it is an evil that can only bring judgment at last.

God wills that we should love Him for Himself alone with no hidden reasons, trusting Him to be to us all our natures require. Our Lord said all this much better: Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33) .

What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken with the wind? - Luke 7:24

"What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? a reed shaken with the wind? " Nay! an iron pillar that stood firm whatsoever winds blew against it. This, as I take it, is in some true sense the basis of all moral greatness, that a man should have a grip which cannot be loosened - like that of the cuttlefish with all its tentacles round its prey- upon the truths that dominate his being and make him a hero. "If you want me to weep," said the old artist-poet, " there must be tears in your own eyes." If you want me to believe, you yourself must be aflame with conviction which has penetrated to the very marrow of your bones. And so, as I take it, the first requisite, either for power upon others, or for greatness, in a man’s own development of character, is that there shall be this unwavering firmness of grasp of clearly-apprehended truths, and unflinching boldness of devotion to it.

No doubt there is much to be laid to the account of temperament; but whatever their temperament may be, the way to this unwavering courage, and firm, clear ring of indubitable certainty, is open to every Christian man and woman; and it is their own fault, their own sin and their own weakness, if they do not possess these qualities. Temperament! What on earth is the good of our religion if it is not to modify and govern our temperament? Has a man a right to jib on one side, and give up the attempt to clear the fence, because he feels that in his own natural disposition there is little power to take the leap? Surely not! Jesus Christ came here for the very purpose of making our weakness strong; and if we have a firm hold upon Him, then, in the measure in which His love has permeated our whole nature, will be our unwavering courage, and out of weakness we shall be made strong.

Then let our closeness to Jesus Christ, and our experience of His power, kindle in us the fiery enthusiasm with which He baptizes all His true servants, and let it, because we know the sweetness’s that excel, deprive us of all liability to be tempted away by the vulgar and coarse delights of earth and of sense. Let us keep ourselves clear of the babble that is round about us, and be strong because we grasp Christ’s hand.