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FRIDAY, January 7
John 2:1-11. The servants who had drawn the water knew.
At the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, it was Mary who saw the need and interceded, saying to Jesus, “They have no wine.” And it was Jesus who changed the water into wine. But it was left to the servant to do the work. Mary said, “Do whatever he tells you.” Jesus said, “Fill the jars with water,” and then, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” And it was only when they did that—only in the act of pouring itself—that the water was seen to have become wine.
We are the servants: the church is a society of servants. We’re to serve the guests at God’s party—all the guests, whether we would have invited them ourselves or not. God gives the wine of his presence through us. He runs his household through us. He feeds his hungry guests through our hands. We fill the jugs with water and pour it out because that’s the way God has arranged it.
He could do otherwise. God could get along without the church. But he doesn’t choose to. He gives his guests into the hands of his household. The great outpouring of God’s charity is in our hands. (1970)
PRAY for the Diocese of Langtang (Province of Jos, Nigeria)
Ps 103 * 114, 115; Isaiah 52:3-6; Revelation 2:1-7
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