You Keep the Best Wine to Last--Feb. 18, 2013

[From Feb. 26, 2007 archive]

You humble and test us,

feed us in the wilderness;

but your judgments are right.

In the end you do us good,

even if it means keeping

the best wine until last.

And the best is this—

the one who sanctifies

and we who are sanctified

all have the same Father;

hence Jesus is not ashamed

to call us brothers and sisters.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6

Deut. 8:1-20

Heb. 2:11-18

John 2:1-12

Selected Verses

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right,

            and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.

Deuteronomy 8:15b-16

[The LORD your God] made water flow for you from flint rock, and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good.

Hebrews 2:11

For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father.  For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters…

John 2:10b

“…But you have kept the good wine until now.”  [The chief steward to the bridegroom]