There days after Jesus called His first followers, He attended a marriage in Cana of Galilee. He was thirty years old at this time and had largely restricted His ministry to preparing for His purpose in life. Apart from the brief appearance in the temple when He was twelve years old, there is no record of a public ministry prior to this time.
Jesus did not just go to the wedding, He was invited with His mother and the disciples He had just recruited. Everything went well at the wedding, until the wine is so essential that a wedding ceremony without one is as good as a failed wedding.
Such a failure could not be permitted. Mary noticed the problem with the perceptible eyes of a mother and quickly went to Jesus to ask His intervention. She alone probably knew the abilities of her son. After all Angel Gabriel told her, when Jesus was miraculously conceived in her womb, that He will be great and will save His people.
Armed with this knowledge, Mary came to Jesus and declared, “They have no more wine”. Jesus at first hesitated to do something saying. “Dear woman, why come to me? My time has not yet come”. But Mary was determined to get Jesus to intervene even if His complaint and told servants to “do whatever He tells you to do”. It was against this background that Jesus turned water into wine. It was the very first miracle He performed.
Was it a coincidence that the first miracle the Master did was done at a marriage? Of course not! Marriage was made for miracles as much as miracles were made for marriage. Every divinely established marriage comes into existence by a miracle. Consequently, it also takes the miraculous to sustain and make the marriage successful. Every family needs a miracle to fulfill the purpose and vision for its existence.
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