I like going to weddings. You get to dress up, participate in a beautiful ceremony, good music, good food, and good company, etc. What’s not to like? It is filled with love, joy, and hope all around from the ones who are there for one purpose – to bless the couple getting married.

I find it fascinating that Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding. And the miracle was a seemingly frivolous wine-making to save the wedding party from embarrassment. Weren’t there more pressing needs all around? Why does Jesus “waste” His inauguration miracle on making some wine? Would anyone die if He hadn’t done that?

I believe Jesus was thinking about the final wine that he would share with His disciples the night before He would be crucified. It is the wine that He would provide to cleanse the world from its sins. The wine represents His blood, and we Christians celebrate it in the form of Communion. And it is that wine, which represents His blood, that would be the drink at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb to remind all why the wedding is taking place in the first place.

At that wedding, we, the church, would be the bride. Jesus will be our Groom. And we will enter into an everlasting communion with Him that would overflow with the ecstasy of joy, love, and hope. That is the wedding every wedding has been pointing to. That is the marriage union that every love story you have ever heard is pointing to. Every laughter you have experienced points to it. Every good company you have enjoyed points to it. Every instance of love and pride in your loved ones points to it.

Let your mind escape from this shadowy world and rest on the reality of eternal bliss in life with Jesus.

Life is better with Jesus. Walk in Him.

PH