John 2:4. “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come.”
MINE HOUR: the timing of the cross. It was before Him always; in His mind and in His words. Not always brought out plain to others; the meaning not often heard. But the cross was there before Him, even at a wedding feast. The wine of the cup of the wrath of God was something He could already taste.
I wonder when all were rejoicing, did He pause and shed a tear. Those who had come to celebrate, He knew their sins He would bear. They tasted and were probably made happy for what He did for them. But little did those people know, He was the One who would die for their sin.
His hour was always before Him, even when doubting people asked for a sign. The illustration of the temple showed He was Lord even over the course of time. The fact of a human body as the dwelling place of the Holy God - Escaped those people then, but is revealed to us in God's Word.
His hour was always before Him, when for some their sins He forgave. It was there when He told Zacchaeus it was the lost, He came to save. His hour was there before Him when in grace He healed the blind. When He drove from the temple the covetous merchants, the Father's will, was on His mind.
Those who followed Him didn't remember He told them what would happen some day. Strangely they did not pay attention to some of the most important things He had to say. How strange is the mind of men to forget such significant things as this!
But even now we may forget, when we focus on our things, not His.
There is no doubt the cross was on His mind in the years before it happened; When God laid on Him the iniquities of us all that we might be forgiven. May I never carelessly forget the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ my Savior - The effect of what He did in that “hour,” is seen in my daily behavior.
“Father God, the day the Lord performed that first known public miracle, opened up my mind to what the Lord Jesus must have had constantly on His mind. May what I have been doing this day reflect in some little way the light of the Lord. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”