The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

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a thousand omissions in the pre-occupation and
absorbing interests of the coming event. It was not
much ; but it was about to cause no little irritation
and real pain and humiliation to the bridegroom,
shame to the bride, a feeling of sympathetic unrest
and vexation among all the guests. It would just
spoil the feast. And the Saviour's heart was moved
as if some big agony had been appealing to Him.
He had come to smooth the ruffles, and allay the
irritations of life, as well as to lighten its deep darkness
and fill up its awful abysses. And there He
wrought His first miracle to save a happy company
from a passing shadow of shame and disappointment.
He has been doing that ever since. His sympathy is
equal to the greatest demands, and just as prompt in
responding to all lighter calls. His religion extracts
the sting from the fiercest and deadliest sorrows, and
smoothes the mere surface wounds of daily irritations.
He helps us to bear life's frets and pricking cares as
well as life's burning fevers and desperate agonies.
Nay, were it
not so, He would be of little use to us in
nine-tenths of life, for life is mainly made up on its
trying side of just
such ordinary worries, disappointments,
and vexations as those which He removed at
that wedding feast. He did many a greater thing
than that, but perhaps not one that showed more
clearly what His religion was to be to those who
felt its power through all ages to come. You see
Him there as He always is, removing this weight of
daily care, turning to music the jarring notes of
life.