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Your Hour Has Come

on January 23, 2022 by Lithakazi Mkombe

If you are an administrative person like me then you probably know the satisfaction of planning out your week and days, setting a schedule in place with goals to accomplish each day, carefully planned by the hour. This is how we tend to plan our lives, how we are mostly groomed to be. Unfortunately, nothing is without detriment but God.

Jesus, while on earth, had tagged along with His mother Mary to a wedding in Cana of Galilee – a story found in the book of John 2:1-11. You do not have to be a devout Christian for you to know what goes down in this passage in history. A beautiful story short: The master of the banquet runs short of wine for the guests. Mary – the mother of Jesus, approaches Jesus and asks Him to make a plan. She further instructs everyone to do all that He commands of them. Jesus responds, “My time has not yet come.”

My time has not yet come

This has been open to a lot of debate as to what exactly Jesus meant by this but we will focus on what we do know, what is written in the passage of scripture. Jesus performs a miracle, He turns water into wine and His glory is seen. This is His first miracle. 

I want to draw today’s lesson from this as we are drawing closer to the end of the month of January. Plans have been made, yes. Dates have been set in place, of course and I assume it is plans bigger and more meaningful than random resolutions. We have time frames for our anticipations but I want to charge you to be open to what God wants to do in your life, you might be in for a big surprise. Do not be so set on your schedule that you might miss a big miracle right before your eyes. God is moving, the year has just begun, be open to big things such as change an unexpected answered prayer; do not anticipate them for later in the year. They are now, they are every open door by God. God wants you to be open to them. If a door of opportunity is opened before you, run in! This may be your big break. Trust God’s leading and follow Him.

It may not feel like it but if God says your Hour has Come then it has. Dive into those doors and may you be successful in Jesus’ name.

These opportunities may come in unexpected ways

The water Jesus turned to wine was water used for ceremonial washing. Jesus took what was contained in what was unexpected (water from a washing basin) and made choice wine out of it. Do not second guess yourself, you are worthy. May God open our eyes to see the things He leads us to. May He give us the faith to trust what He is leading us into and may He give us to courage to run with it.

Summary pointers

1. Jesus
2. The stone jars
3. The servants

Be like all three. Allow God to put value in you like Jesus put value in the stone jars.You are valuable.
Move when God says move even when you feel like your time has not yet come – you are being led.
If God is leading you into something, do not wait; some miracles are only seen as we go. The servants did not wait to see the water had turned to wine or not, they continued and brought it before the banquet master. It was wine.

“and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

John 2:10 (NIV)

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