Gospel Reading for Sunday of the Second Week of Epiphany: Year C
John 2:1 -11
His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ (John 2:5)
This is one of the two most important messages of the whole Christian Testament. The other also comes from a Mary, Mary Magdalene, and her message of “I have seen the Lord!” (John 20:18)
Obeying Jesus and the Easter Message of “He is risen,” makes us who we are as Christians.
Obeying Jesus is not always simple. It requires participation in our blessings. Jesus changed water into wine but we filled the water jars. We, the servants, to whom His mother said, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ This required more than simply turning a valve on a faucet. In the days of Jesus it required filling buckets from a well and carrying it to the jars. But in their obedience, the servants didn’t see what was happening in their own labors, the first sign of who Jesus is.
The same is true for us today. As we go about loving God and loving our neighbors, realizing that all people are our neighbors as was the man found injured on the side of the road in the Gospel according to Luke about the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29 to 37); where Jesus instructs him (and us) to ‘Go and do likewise.’ Can we, will we, obey?
More often than not Jesus calls us to inconvenient tasks that sometimes costs us our time and, or, money or both. Jesus will instruct us to go back to places where we were kicked out of in order to bring them good news. Jesus instructs us to not worry about insults that come our way but to pray for those who hate us. And his mother says “Do whatever he tells you.”
As we listen to what the Spirit of God is saying to us, let us live to love and serve, and to teach others to love and serve, while pondering anew what the Almighty can do. John
Let us pray: (BCP p.215)
Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ’s glory, that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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