John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Strong Exhaustive Dictionary tells us that the word "believed" means to entrust something, to be entrusted with.
We in our lives have situations and people that we trust, we have circumstances that require us to place confidence and trust in when there seems to be no good reason for trust. In this situation the disciples of Jesus did now know Jesus except that he called them to change their vocation in life.
This could be like a thought I had the other day. Suppose the Lord called you to be a preacher. In that calling he wanted you to go to New York city and stand on the corner in the area of Jewish business establishments and proclaim that the Messiah had come and Jesus was he. Can you imagine a task that seemed impossible? That is something similar to what the disciples faced when they "Believed on him."
Where is the bedrock of your belief system? Whom do you trust more then anyone else? What is the foundation of your principles of life?
If Jesus is not where you start and stop in your life, nothing else matters.
David DeTar
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"Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." I love this story in the Bible. It reminds me so much of my mother. Jesus plainly tells her no, but regardless she tells the servants to follow his instruction 'whatever' it is.
Let me pose to you a question. How did Mary know that Jesus could fill an empty vessel? Do you think Mary's faith was the result of a heavenly visitation thirty years prior? I certainly don't. I think somewhere along the way, some how, Mary was close enough to find out that Jesus could make new and beautiful out of great emptiness.
I like to imagine a household pet that was never dead long, or maybe some split pea and ham soup that turned to cheese and macaroni. Maybe as a young man, he picked up the crying child with a bloody knee and literally kissed it and made it all better.
Somehow Mary was close enough to Jesus that she KNEW He was the Christ. She had experienced the wonder enough to say follow whatever. Are we that close to Him? It's in the House of the Lord, in the early morning prayer closet, and in the family devotion that Jesus reveals himself to us. And it is through those revelations that we find the faith to stand and point to the only One who can keep us from falling! Let's find ourselves near Him today.
Jason Ouellette
Wednesday
John 2
