It makes sense that the person who throws a party serves the best wine first, since after people have drunk, they won't know the difference if they're served an inferior wine.
What's the point then of serving the best wine last?
It seems our culture has shifted. It's no longer the innocent on the block. In that way, it's unfortunately following the example of post-Christian Europe. The U.S. has had its fill of playing the whore. The light is gone, and what is left? Well, what remains for a prostitute after her godless lifestyle eats up her beauty like a canker sore?
The United States has had its time to drink its fill of the stuff that makes drunk but doesn't satisfy. Is this a doom and gloom scenario? Yes and no.
Yes it is if people stay on the same decaying and declining track the country is on, but there's another way.
The new and best wine is the alternative. At a 1st century wedding feast, the host served the best vintage of wine after all the other wine ran out. Why? The host didn't even know. It came from an unknown source.
But the servants knew.
They just listened to what Jesus said and did as He instructed. This is the place that few even today know about. It's the source of what tastes best and truly satisfies in life.
It's when we have had our fill of everything else and realize none of it is truly good that Jesus will turn the plain water of our lives into the very best wine.
And how does that happen?
It starts by asking Him, "What would you have me do?"
That question doesn't portend doom. It births fulfillment.
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