On holiday we visited a church building,. where worship had taken place for 600 years, it was a rather imposing structure,and it had beautiful stain glass windows.One pictured the miracle that took place at the wedding,in Cana of Galilee,it was very beautiful,we read about it in Johns gospel[2 v1-11] The miracles that are recorded in Johns gospel are to be understood as signs,they were wonderful in themselves ,but the more important thing about them,was the spiritual truth ,that they teach us.When Jesus fed the 5000,plus,He wanted the people to appreciate that He was the bread of life come down from heaven,who alone could satisfy their hungry souls. When He raised Lazurus from the dead ,he wanted people to appreciate that He was the resurrection and the life,and if they believed in Him, resurrection life would have been theirs.When He changed the water into wine ,He was as Bruce Milne writes showing that,/The new wine of the kingdom,brought by Jesus, contrasts with the old wine of Judaism..Jesus changes the water of Judaism into the wine of Christianity/.The sad thing was that the many who witnessed what Jesus did failed miserable to see the spiritual truths in the miracles,if they had,and embraced them they would have experienced ,their own personal miracle
A prayer......./ Dear God help us to be alert to what You are seeking to teach us,in Jesus name Amen /
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