I love the account in the Bible where Jesus turns water into wine. He took something very common - everyday, ordinary water - and turned it into wine. John 2:1-10 tells the story. At a wedding feast in Cana, wine ran out and Jesus' mother decided to fix the problem by getting Jesus involved. His hand somewhat forced, he told the servants to fill large stone jars with water and to take them to the Master of Ceremonies of the wedding for tasting. When he tasted the wine, not knowing where it had come from, he was astonished. “A host always serves the best wine first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!”
The striking thing about this incident is not so much that Jesus performed his first miracle. It wasn't that Jesus was basically pushed by his mother to solve a problem he didn't want to solve. But it's that Jesus did then what he keeps doing today. He took something ordinary - something without real value and turned it into something totally different from what it was and into something excellent.
If you look at your abilities, your personality, your spiritual gifts, and find them to be lacking, take heart. Do what you can to be prepared. Do what you can to be equipped. But beyond that, don't lose faith. Just as Jesus turned water into wine, he will take what little you have and make it into something special.
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