In the wedding at Cana (John 2), when Jesus performed his first public miracle, the disciples began to believe in him. Likewise, God wants to do miracles through us today so that others will believe in Jesus.
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In the second Chapter of the Gospel of John, the first 12 verses we read about the Wedding at Cana – the first time Jesus performed a public miracle. You know the story: The host of the wedding ran out of wine too early before the party was over. The Blessed Mother’s there and she says to Jesus: “They have no wine.”
There’s an interesting exchange between Mary and Jesus there that I could give a whole other teaching on. However, what I want to focus on is this: “Mary, his mother said”, after talking to Jesus. She said to the servers, the wine stewards, “Do whatever he tells you.” We can work miracles in our lives. We who are followers of Christ, we have taken on the life of Christ, therefore we are called to do miracles. This particular Scripture helps us to know why, but the first thing I want to point out is that Mary says, “Do whatever he tells you.”
When we’re praying for a miracle, how often do we do whatever Jesus tells us to do through his word, through Church teachings? We have to line ourselves up in the ways of holiness, which by the way we can only do with the help of the Holy Spirit. So we need more of the Holy Spirit in our lives, as we need more holiness in our lives. When we are in that state of wanting to do God’s will, doing whatever he tells us, even if we don’t like it, even if it doesn’t make sense, even if it doesn’t seem logical, or fit with our plans – that needs to be the first place where our heart aligns up with Jesus, being willing to do whatever he tells us to do. And then after Jesus tells the wine stewards fill up the jugs with water and then he changes it to the best wine ever, at the very end of this story, it says, this is the verse 11, “Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and…” (here’s the important part for today) “…and so revealed his glory and his disciples began to believe in him.”
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