May 2

May 2
NT – John 2:1-25
The Wedding in Cana. This is the first of the 7 miraculous signs that John uses to show Jesus’ power and divinity. It is a favorite story with lots of people for various reasons. I love it because this is where John introduces a major facet of Jesus’ character that he wants the reader to take away from his gospel.
Jesus is obedient.
We will see this over and over again in John’s gospel. God says go and Jesus goes. Even when it is somewhere he should not be (like Samaria), Jesus goes. Mary says ‘fix it’, Jesus may protest, but she brushes that off and he fixes it. Why? Because his mother said so. If you want to be like Jesus, you have to be obedient, even unto death, to God.
That sounded dramatic, didn’t it? Martin Luther. He was nothing if not dramatic. John was his favorite gospel, too.


OT –Judges 15:1-16:31
Gosh, I misread the last verse of yesterday’s scripture. I assumed that *Samson* had given away his wife. Now, he really did when he left her at his in-laws home and went back to his home without her. But he must have relented and when he got there, he discovered that she had been given to ‘his friend, who attended him at the wedding’. I guess they must not have been Good Friends otherwise he would have noticed that GF was missing while he was down with the wife of Samson???? Time to check out the Midrash.
Here is a link to an online Midrash about Samson and his various women.


Psalm 103
Love this psalm. I also love the verse: slow to anger, abounding in love.
I am beginning to think, reading Judges, that I have mistaken ‘slow to anger’ for ‘never gonna get angry’. And that, based on God’s might, is probably a huge mistake.

We are 1/3 of the way through. Keep going, we are making great progress!