You Keep the Best Wine to Last--Feb. 23, 2015

[From Feb. 18, 2013 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

Ps. 119:75

 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right,
          and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.

Deut. 8:2

Remember the long way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Heb. 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 2:9-10

When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”