Save the Best for Last

No, this isn’t our first dance song. Although it was my favorite song in seventh grade!

This is exactly what happened at the first miracle at the Wedding at Cana. Jesus was invited to a wedding and he must have RSVP’d because he was there when the dreaded thought of the wine running out occurred.

His mother ran to him and asked him for help. He told the servants to fill the jugs with water and bring it to the master of the banquet’s table. (I wonder if this is like the wedding coordinator back in the day. I am picturing Martin Short’s character from Father of the Bride).

When the master tasted it he pulled the groom aside and said, “Why are you serving this now!? Everyone brings out the good wine at the beginning and saves the cheap wine for when people are too drunk and happy to notice!” (I'm paraphrasing here)

And so the story ends and the celebration continued and this was the first miracle of Jesus.


Interesting story on so many levels. After talking with one of my bridesmaids (Hey Amy!) we sort of hashed out a few key points.

• Jesus was invited and came to a wedding
• What Jesus touches makes things better

First, I love that Jesus went to a wedding. He was obviously invited and attended. He saw the importance of marriage. The very symbol of the Groom coming for his Bride was about to take place in his own life on a Cross in a few short years.

Jesus created a wine that tasted even better than the best wine served at the beginning. And for the master to recognize this in perhaps a slightly tipsy state says something about how good that wine was! Jesus made it better.

What can we take from this? First and foremost, Jesus is invited to our wedding, our marriage, and our life! I want him to attend. I want him to be the honored guest. I want him to be a part of our celebration. We are having this shin-dig in his honor- to signify the beauty and symbolism of the wedding ceremony and to rejoice in him bringing us together.

And I sure hope that it gets better and better. I think after several Couples Sunday School Classes and Pre-marital counseling sessions we can firmly say that nothing will get better, resolved or grow with out his help and I want the best wine to come later. I think with and only with Jesus help can the "wine" of marriage get better.

We are having a quote from C.S. Lewis read at our wedding. I absolutely love it. It is the most realistic approach to marriage I can think of. This, my friends, is just the beginning for Blake and I. I hope you will join us in prayer as we continue on this journey…the three of us.

From A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works "Being in Love"

"If the old fairy-tale ending "They lived happily ever after" is taken to mean "They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married," then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense-love as distinct from "being in love"—is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be "in love" with someone else. "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it."

-- C. S. Lewis



Ecclesiastes 4:12 (New International Version)
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.





John 2 (New International Version)
John 2
Jesus Changes Water to Wine
1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine."
4"Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."
5His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[a]
7Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim.
8Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet."
They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
11This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.