She Knew

John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”


Mary had been warned what would happen to her son when he was just a baby. She had been told who he was by prophets and prophetess. She was there when the shepherds came to see her new born son leaving their sheep. I'm sure she wanted to hold onto him and stop that future but she did not. Mary from the first introduction to her until the last was faithful to God. At one and only one point in the gospels was she worried enough to try and bring Jesus home when he seemed to be getting himself in trouble. You remember when they told Jesus his mother and brothers were outside and people had been talking like Jesus was insane.


People know who we are, especially those close to us. Sometimes they don't want to admit it, because it is too painful for one reason or another, but people around us know us. We show ourselves every day even as we try to hide. Sometimes the people who knew us the best have the biggest struggle when God changes us. 


I frequently say that I know what Paul meant when he said that in Christ we are a new creation. I am not the same person today that I was when I accept the love of Christ. My skill set is different, my personality is different, my character is vastly different not because I'm a better person but because Christ lives in me. Now I don't take direction from the world so much as I listen to God's instructions. Don't wait for the water into wine thing, but if God told me to do it I'd try.