Day 6 - Friday - Connect the Testaments: A 365-Day Daily Devotions with Bible Reading Plan - Logos
February 4: What Type of Savior? Exodus 9:1–10:29; John 2:1–12 ; Song of Solomon 1:15–17 It’s tempting to operate life on our own terms and only call on God when we hit a crisis. If we’re not busy studying how God has worked in the past and relying on the work of the Spirit in our lives, we can easily fall into the pattern of calling on Him to meet our desires rather than realizing that He is the first to deliver what we need. In John 2, we get a sense of what this was like for Mary and the disciples at the wedding in Cana. While Mary wants Jesus to save the day and the bridegroom from certain ruin and humiliation—Jesus shows her that He is no magician. His soft rebuke reminds her that His plan of salvation exceeds what she can perceive: “What does your concern have to do with me, woman? My hour has not yet come” (John 2:4). (This phrase seems derogatory to our modern ears, but it actually would have been ordinary language between a son and mother in the first-century ad.) How...