John 2:3-5 "When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine." "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
Jesus was at a wedding and they ran out of wine. Most scholars believe that Joseph, Mary's husband, was dead at this time, therefore Mary turning to Jesus to help would not have been uncommon. I do not believe Mary was asking Jesus for a miracle, I think she was just asking him to help and making him aware.
Look at Jesus' reply though, how would you respond to that? Essentially He questioned why she was bothering him with the problem. One of the many jewles in this passage is Mary's reaction to Jesus. She told the servants to do whatever Jesus tells them to do. She completely trusted Jesus to handle the situation, she did not know how Jesus would deal with things, she simply trusted him to do something.
How often do we ask God for something, we may wait a little while, (or long enough by OUR time table) and then we decide to act on our own. How much faith would it take to just leave it at God's feet and trust him to handle it. I don't think Mary stood there over Jesus and waited, I think that when she instructed the servants she went back to the festivities... she completely left it up to Jesus.
We are told through the passage that the wine Jesus made was even better then the best the host had served originally... so taking that and applying it to our lives - when we leave our problems in God's hands and trust in him, his solutions are always better than our best!
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