Turning water into wine is impossible for people, not for Jesus. For Jesus everything is possible and turning water into wine was a piece of cake for Him. John shares with us in his gospel many signs of Jesus, that He performed during His life, John beeing an eye-witness of many of them. Reporting Jesus’ signs and miracles, John has a purpose: so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, so that we may believe in Him and receive eternal life.
In John chapter 2 it is related the first sign of Jesus, how He turned the water into wine, so that His disciples may see His glory and believe in Him. For Jesus is a piece of cake to perform a miracle, yet He performed them only with a specific purpose and not arbitrary. People fallowed Him because of His signs and miracles, because they were healed and fed. When Jesus saw this attitude, He stopped showing miracles, because His purpose is to manifest His glory so that the people may listen to the good news, believe in Him and receive eternal life, even if for Him doing this was a piece of cake.
Do you know that for Jesus’ disciples is a piece of cake to perform miracles? Jesus said:
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. (John 14:12)
It sounds great, but doing this, the christians must have the attitude of Jesus Christ, in other words, to desire not their own glory from people, but to look for the greatest good that they may do for others – to tell people the gospel of peace.
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)
