All Things New

“….but You have saved the best ’til now.”—John 2:8-10

Someone needs to compose a Christmas carol about the wedding at Cana. 

It's a most unlikely place to discover the good news of what we expected to see first from the One sent from heaven to be born as a humble King, Savior of the world, healer and restorer of broken hearts. Surely, He would open the eyes of a blind man first, or restore strength to someone lame from birth, or better yet, just go for it and start raising dead people to life.

But turning water into wine? Really, Jesus? OK, that was cool, and must have been fun to see up close and personal, but now that You’ve got that preliminary out of the way, let’s see what’s really up Your sleeve.

Except, could it be this was it?

Cana may have been, after all, the perfect picture of why Jesus came. For one thing, He showed from the start that He cares about every detail of our everyday life and not just the big weighty things, that He enjoys joy but more than that is the author of it, and most all, that here in this rather unlikely setting He chose to lay the foundation of everything that really matters:

"I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]."—John 10:10

"For I am about to do something new.

    See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?" (Isaiah 43:19)

“Hallelujah!

For the Lord our God

    the Almighty reigns.

Let us rejoice and exult

    and give him the glory,

for the marriage of the Lamb has come,

    and his Bride has made herself ready…"(Revelation 19:6-9)

"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me,

    for the Lord has anointed me

    to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted

    and to proclaim that captives will be released

    and prisoners will be freed.

He has sent me to tell those who mourn

    that the time of the Lord’s favor has come…"(Isaiah 61:1-2)

It is good to know, at Christmas and all year long, that when Jesus makes all things new, or something out of nothing—be it renaming impulsive Simon to Peter “the rock,” or turning water to wine—it is never just OK or passable or close enough but absolutely, positively and completely for “the best.” 

Even closer to home, that when He changes a life on the that day you first believed—no matter how you may have felt on any given day since—that it wasn’t nice repackaging or a bandaid but a beautiful and finished transformation suited only for a child of God…and to remember that is what we are, always and forever.

Never rejected, never alone. Always welcome home with the Father of all creation. Why He came. For us.

O come, let us adore Him.

Find hope

When all the world seems lost

Behold

The triumph of the cross

His power

Has trampled death and grave

Our life found in His Name

The greatest Name of all

Lift up your eyes, see, the King has come

Light of the world reaching out for us

There is no other name,

There is no other name

Jesus Christ, our God….

"No Other Name," (C) 2014 Joel Houston and Jonas Myrin, Hillsong Worship