Defined By Days.

Defined By Days.

John 2:1-5NIV

I know that you would agree with me, there are days. Then there are days that define the rest of your life.

Some follow a predictable path, like the middle isle of a church on your wedding day. Others are as unpredictable as a blind date.

Either way you aren't who you were just a moment before.

In a split second, life is divided into B.C and A.D. The bridge to the past is forever destroyed, and the future rushes in like a flash flood.

It's a new day. It's a new normal. It's the first day of the rest of your life. Paul records in, 2 Corinthians 6:1-2... Today is the day of salvation...Today is the acceptable day of the Lord!

Most certainly, there are days that define us...

The new wine of the Holy Spirit has been given. --This was that day for Jesus. For nearly 30-years, Jesus had worked in his father's carpentry shop. For as long as he could remember, people called him a carpenter.

But on the third day of a weeklong wedding feast, this cabinet maker, became the wine maker.

John 2:1-5NIV On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

For 30 years Jesus defines Himself by His submission to his heavenly Father and to his earthly parents. Jesus leaves Cana of Galilee, and goes to the Jordon river, He’s baptized by John the Baptist to fulfill all righteousness. He then is driven by the spirit into the wilderness and is tempted by satan for 40 days and 40 nights, he resisted all temptations by His Father's word. After 40 days of trails and temptation, angels minister to Jesus. He leaves and goes back to Galilee, He enters a synagogue, Jesus is invited to read scripture, so He turns to, Isaiah 61, and begins to read. 1. “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,?Because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”””

The Bible, God’s word, the word you have in your hand, defined Jesus, and made Him ready for public ministry. Therefore, while in “Cana of Galilee,” Jesus attends a wedding feast, these usually lasted several days.

Scripture doesn’t tell us how, when, or where Jesus recognized that he had the power to do the miraculous, but I'm certain it wasn't at a wedding feast in Cana.

Jesus knew that He was in fact the Messiah. The anointed One, the Day Star, Lilly of the Valley. Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. The ‘One who was, the ‘One’ who is, and the ‘One’ who is to come. Jesus.

Going back in time for a moment, The gospel of Luke gives us our only glimpse of this boy wonder, named-Jesus. One lonely snapshot in the family photo album from birth to age 30. But this one peek into his personality is like a theatrical trailer that foreshadows his future.

Remember we are defined by days-- Some of our strongest memories often come from unusual moments that take place within otherwise familiar traditions. For Jesus the unusual moment happened during the families 63 mile pilgrimage from Nazareth to Jerusalem, for the Feast of the Passover.

One day, Jesus missed the caravan back to Nazareth. (The family would laugh about it the rest of their lives, but it wasn’t funny when it happened). Fear flew through the minds of Joseph and Mary when their 12-year-old went missing for three days!

Q&A: Have you ever lost a child? Your child? For 3 days?

3 days later, Joseph and Mary finally tracked Jesus down, he was sitting in the temple courts, schooling the most brilliant minds in ancient Israel.

Again, What was Jesus doing? He was defining his future by teaching His Fathers word!

Luke 2:47NIV Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.

Again, John 2:5AMP His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

Mary endorsed her approval upon everything Jesus came to do. She believed. P.H

Please remember this, never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a persons plot line for eternity. The right word at the right time could be the catalyst for someone else’s miracle.