Jesus, His disciples, and His mother Mary were invited to a wedding. We can imagine Mary talking with her friends, catching up on the latest news. Someone comes by and says that there is no more wine. Mary immediately gets up, finds Jesus, and takes Him into the kitchen. She tells the servants to do whatever Jesus tells them to do. So Jesus turns the water into wine.

      Now, I wonder what prompted Mary to do what she did. The Bible tells us, “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written” (John 21:25).

      Let us consider the life of Jesus before He began His ministry. Some traditions tell us that Mary’s husband Joseph was older than she was, and he died, leaving her with a family to raise. Jesus as the oldest child, and being perfect in every way, would have helped Mary by working in the carpentry shop and guiding the younger children. Mary would have spent thirty years observing the contrast between the attitudes and behaviors of the Lord Jesus and those of His younger half-siblings and of other children and young men who lived in Nazareth.

      Mary doubtless also remembered the marvelous words spoken of her firstborn Son by the angel Gabriel (Luke 1:31-33), Elizabeth (Luke 1:41-45), the shepherds (Luke 2:16-19), and Simeon (Luke 2:28-33). So when Mary, at the wedding, heard that there was no more wine, she might have reasoned within herself, “Jesus would want to fix that, and He probably has the power to do so.”             Although Jesus never married, He was acquainted with the problems that families face today. So we can take all of our problems to the Lord Jesus Christ, realizing that He knows what we are going through and that He sympathizes with us. He gives us wisdom, comfort, and help when we need it (Heb. 2:17,18; 4:15-16).