Scripture

John 2:10 (The Message)
9-10When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn't know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, "Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you've saved the best till now!"

Observation

I have always seen this portion of scripture, Jesus turning the water into wine, as the beginning of Jesus's miracles but I have seen much more today. According the scripture, the way of the world is to serve the good stuff at the beginning and then when people can't taste a difference bring out the cheap stuff. But as always, Jesus and our Heavenly Father do things better and contrary to the world.

Application

What I am seeing here is that there are definitely two contrary ways of doing things. I knew that but this scripture is clear--"Jesus is saving the best until NOW". What I am hearing God speak to me, is that God's Best has been saved for me TODAY. What does that mean? I think that we have a tendency to say, "Yeah-but I don't feel better today I feel worse, Yeah-but I don't have as much money in the bank and things are bleak, Yeah-but I don't know what is going to happen in the future". What fools. Things, Things Things. Is that all I am going to think about, or limit my God to? What is my hope then, what best do I think has been saved for me NOW? Could it be that I accept "the best for now" as.....continued lavish love for me when I deserve God's wrath as a sinner, grace where I have earned none, righteousness of God given to me-the unrighteous? Could it be that the Jesus has saved the best for me today, as another NUGGET of revelation about who HE is, what HE is to my life, what HIS true sacrifice meant to me, what I have been REDEEMED from. So the best has been saved for me today, the best of this world is as chaff to God, so I accept the gift of Jesus's best for me today. I am NOT going to base it upon what I can see, feel or taste but ON FAITH. Jesus has saved the best for me now, today, so I accept it.

Prayer

Father, Thank You that you have saved the best, for me, until now-Today. Your word says that you have given me all things and those are the best things.