"For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield." Psalm 5:12
The other night my Bible study group was going through John 1-5 and noticing all that John wrote about who Jesus is. He is the Word, He is the Light, He is the Living Water, and so much more. One story that we focused on was when Jesus turned the water into wine.
We talked about why He did it. One of my friends mentioned that He was honoring His mother. I never thought of that. Jesus did tell her that His time had not come yet, and I would take that as a "no". But He turned the water into wine anyway.
The story also goes on to state that the servants were the only ones who knew what He had done. Then the master of the feast goes to the bridegroom and tells him that unlike others he has saved the best wine for the last. It was the custom to serve the cheap wine well into the celebration, after everyone is good and drunk. But Jesus turned the water into wine and raised the bridegroom's status in Cana.
We have no idea who this man was. We don't know his standing, but it had to have increased with the wine that Jesus provided for him. The best part is he didn't even know that Jesus had done it. Only the servants knew. He must have wondered how it happened that his best wine was saved, yet we know that it wasn't.
I have to think whoever this man was he was a righteous man. God blessed him through His Son and gave him favor. Sometimes we are blessed by God through ways that only He can make happen. He gives us favor and we don't even know how He made it happen. We just need to keep walking in His way and He will bless us and honor us, even when we have done nothing to bring it to pass.
