Mary’s example

Mary showed great sensitivity and compassion to the wedding couple and complete confidence in Jesus.  She didn’t use lots of words, she just simply brought the problem to him, “They have no wine”.  So when we are worried or weighed down with problems, we can use the same simple, direct approach, confident that in his good time Jesus will guide us to do the right thing.

We can learn something else from Mary.  Years before, that brave little handmaid (servant) of the Lord had obeyed the call to be the mother of God’s Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ (Luke 1:38). (11) At Cana she invited the servants to obey her Son: “Do whatever he tells you” (NRSV, John 2:5).  So today, Christians are called to obey the teaching of Jesus.

The servants’ example

The servants are a model of trusting obedience and generous service.  They didn’t question what seemed an extraordinary instruction but worked tirelessly to fill the water-jars.  There was nothing half-hearted about what they did – they held nothing back and filled the jars to the brim.  Christians are called to be as faithful and generous as they were.