WEDDING IN CANA – A GLIMPSE OF INTIMACY

Jn.2:11 – TPT – This miracle in Cana was the first of the many extraordinary miracles Jesus performed in Galilee. This was a sign revealing his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Eph.5:31,32 – For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and lovingly hold to his wife, since the two have become joined as one flesh. Marriage is the beautiful design of the Almighty, a great and sacred mystery—meant to be a vivid example of Christ and his church.

The wedding at Cana was God’s choice for the glory of God to begin to be displayed through the miracles performed by Jesus of Nazareth. Why would Christ choose a wedding for the first miracle? I think it has to do with the very reason He came to live among us, to restore the supernatural intimacy with God that we were intended to enjoy. We were created in the image of God so that we could walk with Him and enjoy Him. The fall of man took away the most precious of all gifts. We were intended to have perfect intimacy with God and enjoy His creation, that was lost when we disobeyed and turned away from the Lord. Jesus became a man to pay the highest price, His death on a cross, so that perfect intimacy with God would be restored. Marriage is a picture of that. Marriage is intended to be a picture of the relationship of Christ with His church. The Miracle of Cana was a glimpse of that glory, we will see it in its fullness at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Here is Matthew Henry on marriage as a picture of Christ and the church.

“For this cause — because they are one, as Christ and his church are one — shall a man leave his father and mother. This relationship is to be preferred to all others, there being a closer union between these two than between any others. And they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery. Those words of Adam are spoken literally about marriage, but they also have a hidden, mystical sense in them, relating to the union between Christ and his church. I speak concerning Christ and the church.”

So every time I read or hear about the marriage celebration in Cana I am reminded that this was just a shadow of what is to come. Turning water into wine was a glimpse of His glory; someday soon we will be consumed and swallowed up by the glory of the Bridegroom.