Lighthouse
Renewal Center ã
2003
WOMAN
Scripture
is constantly teaching. The lesson is often not on the surface of
the words themselves, but nestled neatly underneath.
At
Cana, Jesus said to His Mother, “O Woman, what does that have to
do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.” We’ve all
heard preachers stumbling over themselves, trying to explain the surface meaning
of the words themselves, how to explain Jesus, a loving Son of Mary, talking “that
way” to His mother! We are told that Jesus spoke those exact words,
but His Mother understood the deeper message. They were communicating on a
different level. That is why He was able to tell Her without
explanation, “My hour has not yet come.” She knew and understood.
Yet the Father and Jesus changed their “hour” because Mary asked! So
Jesus did not speak “that way” to His Mother.
Jesus
is always teaching. Why did He want His disciples to hear those words?
Is there a lesson He was pointing out? Is He tweaking our memory?
Where else in scripture does that word “woman” appear? “The woman”
in the Garden of Eden refers to Eve. But then there is a reference to
“The Woman” which is clearly not Eve herself: Gen. 3:15 “I
will put enmity between you and The Woman.” At no time
does Satan have the upper hand with Her! At birth, Eve, too, was sinless
and not in the power of the evil one. The Church calls Mary, the “New
Eve.”
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Feb. 05