At the Top of the List





At the Top of the List 

I recently read about an eight-year-old boy who had been invited to be a guest on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show many years ago. Johnny and the guests correctly guessed after a short conversation with this little boy, a hero being honored, that he was a Christian.

The Master of Ceremonies asked him what he had been studying in Sunday school. And he told them they had just read how Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding. The audience laughed, even roared at his statement.

Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water: so they filled them to the brim.

Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water

 that had been tuned into wine… John 2:7-9 NIV

It was obvious the boy on the Johnny Carson show hadn’t really thought this miracle through and how it would sound to the audience. But the next thing he did made the audience go quiet and wait in anticipation. The little boy bowed his head in thought. Then he looked up and said with a smile, “If you’re going to have a wedding, make sure you invite Jesus!”

It was a real miracle for Jesus to change water to wine, but oh the joy in realizing, Jesus still has the power and does miracles today behind the scenes of our lives.

Jesus waits expectantly for us to invite Him into every aspect of our daily life from our ordinary to and to the special events. Miracles of water to wine is special but our Lord is able to change our deep sorrows to gladness, our heart wounds to fresh wonder and take old stale thoughts into new creative possibilities.

It’s wise for us to always invite Jesus to come as our special guest to whatever we attend, where we work, the walks we take, and even weddings we attend. Oh, just imagine all He can do― when we put Him at the top of our list as our honored guest!

I love to dwell on the thought

That Jesus waits for me

To invite Him as I ought.

 

And I wonder what would be

At what miracles I would miss

If I did not invite Him along with me

 

 

 

 

“At the Top of the List” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© April 15, 2015