Daily Lesson for August 8, 2014

Today's daily lesson comes from John 2, the wedding feast at Cana:

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.”

The last time the story of the wedding feast at Cana came around in the lectionary a friend of mine posted this on face book:

"Jesus turned the water into wine.
180 gallons of water into wine.
180 gallons of purification water into wine.
That's 900 bottles.
And it was the good stuff.
This is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Don't you think this story is telling us something about how life ought to be lived?  Not dour, not dismal, not with that tightly fastened anal retentiveness of Puritanism which H.L. Mencken defined as "the haunting suspicion somebody somewhere is having a good time."

No. Jesus came to bring some life to the party - a little joy, a lot of laughter.  Wine.

And it wasn't really the wine that did it. The wine was just the sign. It was Jesus himself who did it. And he wants to do it in us.

Let Him. Let go. Unwind. Drink it in. Celebrate those around you. Get out on the dance floor and dance like nobody's watching.

And do it today - it's Friday, so it's legal!

This is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.