Yet to be

When the steward tasted the water that had become wine … 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.’  (John 2:9-10)

Yet to be

The best is yet to be. Startled joy fills our faces when we know this. It is a surprise that runs contrary to common thought.

We fear losing what we have as the decades of life roll by, unable to imagine that anything in the future could we as good as what we know.

I suppose those who have suffered greatly in earlier stages of life are eager to release their past, hoping, if they can still hope, that something better lies ahead.

But as years go by our strength, health, family, relationships or our income diminish in one way or another, and we hold tight to what we have as long as we can.

Yet, here we meet an alternative way of being and living, looking ahead with hope—because there is good wine that can inebriate us with startled gratitude for the gracious goodness of living and loving.

Good wine awaits. The best is yet to be.

Some days it is hard to think this and harder still to write it, for it seem glib, Pollyannaish, until you know the bridegroom, Christ, who has married this earth. He shares the fullness of all he is that we may taste and see Love’s pure delight.

He is the good wine, the best wine, and there is always more. The best awaits, eager to surprise us with a joy that the years will never dim.

Pr. David L. Miller