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            So I was reading about this guy named Josh.  He was maybe 30, and had come home with some friends to visit his mother.  They tagged along with her to a wedding.  At the reception, they ran out of punch.  So Josh’s mom came over to him and said: “They’re out of punch,” like it was Josh’s responsibility to do something about it.  He said “Okay – how is that my business?”  But she just told the caterers Josh would handle it, and walked away.  What did she want him to do – make a beverage run to Food Lion or Seven-11?  She didn’t say what she expected him to do, except that she made it clear she expected him to handle it.  Really?  Really??  I mean – moms – ‘nuff said.

            So this is how Josh handled it.  Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.  Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.”  They filled them up to the brim.  And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”  So they took it.

            When the wedding coordinator tasted the water, it had become wine – I mean it was like really expensive stuff - he was angry with the groom.  He said, “Dude, everybody knows you serve the good stuff first.”  The wedding coordinator was angry because he didn’t know a miracle had happened, but Josh’s friends knew, and His disciples believed in Him (Luke 2.1-11.  1-5, 9-10 my paraphrase, 6-8, 10 from the ESV).

            “Jesus” is, of course, the Greek version of the Aramaic Yeshua, or the Hebrew Joshua, which was as common a name as John or Joe or Josh is today.  In Cana, and Nazareth Jesus was a guy named Josh.  He was a guy named Josh who had a trade, whose dad had died, and whose mom had different notions about his responsibilities than he did.  He was also the Christ, the Son of God who could change the molecular structure of water and turn it into wine in an instant.

            Jesus reconciles us to God not only through his death, but through his life.  He contains “the fullness of Deity” (Colossians 2.9).  At the same time he has personal experience with “all our weaknesses” (Hebrews 4.15).  This gives us confidence when we have to come before the throne of God with those weaknesses.  At God’s right hand is His Son – who is also this guy named Josh from Nazareth.  Jesus makes sure that we come to a throne of “grace” and that we find specific help for our need (Hebrews 4.16).

            It is important to know about Jesus – to know the doctrines concerning salvation, grace, forgiveness.  But it is also important to know Jesus.  To know who He is, how He thinks, how He acts.  We are given more than ample opportunity.  The Holy Spirit has given us four gospels.  We need to spend time in Nazareth or Jerusalem or Bethany or Capernaum every day.  We need to watch Jesus, listen to Him, pay attention to Him.  Mary of Bethany left so many things behind to sit at Jesus’ feet.  We need to nudge in next to her.  Jesus welcomes us there, and says what we gain there will never be taken away (Luke 10.41-42).  Because when we get to know this guy named Josh, we get to know God.

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