I guess that sort of answers the questions raised yesterday. Jesus and his crew of five are actually invited, although we still do not know who invited them. All we established for certain is that they did not crash the party. An invitation from Mary, the mother of Jesus, would have qualified as an official invitation since they would have had some supporting role in the festivities.
I have come to appreciate the thought that
Jesus and his disciples are personally invited to come to the wedding (well,
maybe just Jesus). Actually it would
make sense to invite a bunch of fishermen to the wedding. They are a barrel of fun! But the fact that Jesus and the disciples are all invited seems to buttress my point yesterday. You have to remember that Jesus is not yet
the person who has multitudes following him from place to place. He is a relative unknown—perhaps totally
unknown in his role as a teacher and healer.
This is just Jesus, the carpenter’s son from Nazareth—Joseph’s and
Mary’s boy. In other words there is no
celebrity reason for the invitation to be made by a couple in Cana to a
carpenter in a town 25 miles away!
This says to me that Jesus is a likeable
person. He is friendly and kind. He is generous too. I am sure I could come up with quite a list
of positive qualities Jesus possesses that would have made him an attractive
guest. Am I a good wedding guest? Am I the type of person that others enjoy
having around during celebrations…for the right reasons? Am I a wet blanket? I recognize there is a line in here
somewhere, but Jesus knows that also, yet he is the kind of person people want
around during their special moments. Dare
I say, Jesus is like the “salt of the earth”—the God flavor that brings out the
best in the people around him. What a
different world this would be if Christians were a little more like Christ.
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