Daily lesson for January 7, 2015

Today's daily lesson is from John chapter 2 verses 6 and 7:

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.”

They ran out of wine.

So Jesus took the holy water reserved for religious purification and he turned it into wine. 

Six huge jars of it. 

That's 180 gallons of wine. 

And -- it was the good stuff. 

This really is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.*

And I wonder if he isn't trying to teach us something about the way life ought to be lived.


*For this liturgical insight I am grateful to my friend Z Allen Abbott