John 2

As I began to read John 2 I saw the heading to it, "Water Turned To Wine," and I have read this piece of scripture hundreds if not thousands of times.  So I geared up with my assumptions on what this scripture said and began reading again, out-loud.  "On the third day..." All was going as to be expected, I paused at verse five to reflect on it, and you would think that I would have just soaked in there for a bit, but I have read this hundreds if not thousands of times.  So I did a good little repeat in my head trying to force myself to be solemn, nothing.  So I move on reading aloud verse six and seven and I almost missed it and would have for the thousandth time.

6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.

I know is all seems normal.  But it is not when you take into account that those six waterpots were for washing dirty hands, feet, faces, wiping off beards.  The water in them was filthy, disgusting, most likely smelled foul.  Yet Jesus said to them, "fill them up with water, and the filled them to the brim." I stopped and began to choke up at the implications of what He did, it would be like using used bath water to turn it into wine, and He did.  He not only turned it into wine but He turned it into the best wine.  Right off the bat, He made something disgusting, desirable.  Just like He did with me, with you. He made us, sin-ridden, disgusting people, worthy of being thrown out and destroyed, something beautiful and worthy of eternal life.  He changed us, from the inside.  He did not pour us out, He finished filling us up and then transformed that which was in us into something not just new and usable, no.

He transformed us into something that is the best of who we are.