Open Doors

While reading John 2 about Jesus turning the water into wine,  I saw something I'd never seen before which makes so much practical sense to me, so I'll get right to the point focusing only on verses 4, 5, and 11.

 In  verse 5,  Jesus' mother told told the servants to do whatever He told them to do.  This was after Jesus telling His mother in verse 4 that His time had not come yet.  Basically He was saying it wasn't the "set time"  or  "fullness of time"  or His  season  to do anything out of the ordinary, but evidently she knew he could or she wouldn't have spoken to the servants.

Between verses 5 and 11, Jesus  honored, as written tn the commandments- what His mother expected Him to do and turned the water into wine.  And this is what I wrote in my journal this morning as I began to understand what I was seeing:

I wonder if honoring His mother opened the door to honoring His Father?

And this is what I mean about honoring His Father.  In verse 11, it states by turning the water into wine, He manifested His glory, and displayed His greatness and His power openly.  It was at this point in time when Jesus began His public ministry.  By doing what His mother expected of Him, honoring her instructions to the servants, He openly honored His Father by being openly who His Father created Him to be, thereby causing what had NOT been the time or season to become the right time and season for Him!  The door opened for Jesus' public ministry and He walked through it to fulfill His destiny.

God knows how to open the door to our right time and season in the way He chooses to do so, as we, one step at a time, choose to follow His leading. Who knows that the step we're taking now as we honor His ways might be the one to open the door of opportunity and service uniquely prepared for us?  And we can fully trust His desire for us is good and will fit us like a custom fit glove.  How do I know this?   Because He says it many times in His Word, in many ways.   I'll close with just one.

Ephesians 2:10Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

For we  are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

             Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified Bible