The wedding feast at Cana is a lot like life. Unexpected crises may creep in but when you allow Jesus to step into the situation, everything changes. His word is enough to take our stone jars and fill them with satisfying substance. At His word, these clay jars become vessels of abundant life. Jesus can change futility into fulfilment, blandness into flavour, obligation into celebration and law into life. We do not need to know how He does it. We see the challenges and we invite Him to be the solution. We fill the jars with water of our faith and obedience eventhough we do not understand the miracle that is taking place inside. Again, just OBEY when He tells you to "Fill up the jars with water." (John 2:7)
Day 187 - Have Fear of God Read: Psalm 145; Proverbs 6:28-31; Revelation 6; 2 Samuel 15-16 2 Samuel 15 & 16 15:13 A messenger came and told David, “The hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom.”14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.” To me, as a parent, it is so sad to note that King David got to run for his life from his own son, Absalom. His own son schemed for 40 years (15:7) to topple his own father - could you believe that? This is our Bible - it will not hide - all the successes and failures of God's people are truthfully reported. Why did King David suffer this? It started with his own sin of adultery with Bathsheba (11:3) Even though God had forgiven him when he sincerely repented by recognising that he sinned against the Lord (12:13), King David nee...
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