Section 8
finished. Regardless of how much pleasure you are enjoying, when your human life is ended, all your human enjoyment also is gone. Regardless of how good your wife, your husband, your par ents, your children, or your job may be, if your life has come to an end, your pleasure is gone. When the wine has been exhausted, the feast is over, for the feast is dependent upon the wine. All your enjoyment depends upon your life. If your life is terminated, your enjoyment is brought to an end. Regardless of the kind of wedding you are in, when your human life runs out, your wedding is ter minated and the enjoyment is over. That is what happened that day in Cana of Galilee.
Do you not believe that before the Lord Jesus went to Cana, He realized that the wine would run out? Surely He knew it ahead of time, for that was the reason that He went to Cana. The wine did not run out by accident. The Lord Jesus foreknew that the wine would be exhausted, and He went to Cana to establish the principle of life—changing death into life. By coming to the marriage feast, He came to deal with and to heal the situation. The Lord healed death in the human situation by turn ing it into life, in the same way that Elisha healed the bad water by making it fresh (2 Kings 2:19-22).
When the Lord came into the world, He came