Title: Lack and Filling/John 2:1-11
Content I. Not always overflowing (1-3)
As we go through life, our lives are not always overflowing. Sometimes what you need is not enough. The wedding feast in Cana ran out of wine. It's a disappointing thing.
As we live our lives, like this house at a wedding in Cana, we do not always have an overflowing, abundant, pleasant, and joyful life, but there may also be times of need, lack, and despair that should not happen. This is a moment of crisis and despair for us.
But in faith, these times of human suffering and despair become opportunities for God to work for us.
II. Ask and expect.(4-8)
If you look at Mary, the mother of Jesus, when you have a moment of despair and crisis in your life, you come to Jesus with that problem and ask Jesus.
Then he tells the servants to do whatever he says to you. It was believed that after asking and entrusting it, it would be done. is to expect. As such, we should not sit down when we are faced with a moment of despair and pain because what we need in our lives has run out. Like Mary, we must seek and expect. Because prayer turns the impossible into possible.
It turns our incompetence into competence.
III. He overflows with better things (9-11).
When we pray in times of despair and crisis, the Lord always answers and overflows with better things than we expected.
When the servants bring water-based wine to the banquet hall, they say to the bridegroom, “Everyone makes good wine first, and after they get drunk, they serve low quality wine. In other words, better wine abounded in the banquet house that ran out of wine.
In this way, when we have a moment of lack in our lives, if we just ask and expect from the Lord, the Lord fills us with better things and works.