Lord of the Onion Rings

by Matt

Ever gone to Burger King craving for Onion Rings but found out that you had to upsize your regular fries to get it? Isn’t it just such a bummer having to pay extra to get their flagship stuff? The frustration does not stop here! Even after paying, you realize that you actually got very little “upsized” Onion Rings in return for your money. Am I alone in this? Does not this just suck?

We got to thank God that frustrations like these does not happen at God’s counter. When God “upsize” our lives, He is absolutely not stingy about it. One instance of a similar situation happened in a wedding at Cana, Galilee (John 2:1-11). A typical wedding feast of that era ran for days. It was a big community event. Wine was what ran a party. Any wedding that went dry, went dead. In a wedding that threatened to go dead, Jesus turned Water into Wine.

Recorded in the passage is one of the 7 proofs in the book of John, of Jesus’ worth to be called messiah. So why did the author of John record this as one of the proofs of Jesus’ messiah-ship? Because this is a grand display of the creative power of Jesus. Jesus was able to change one substance into another. Jesus gives a new glory to everything he touches. He turns the useless into the useful. This means that Jesus is able to give a new meaning in life to anyone who will accept it from Him. He is able to take any wasted life and transform it into something new. It is a life that is abundant, a fullness of joy that this world’s pleasures cannot give. In a world that threatens to go dead, Jesus offers a peace which surpasses all understanding.

Perhaps the song below can help us position the posture of our heart for today:

Create in my a clean heart, Oh Lord,
Renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence Oh Lord
Take not thy Holy Spirit from me,
Restore unto me, the joy of Thy salvation,
and renew a right spirit within me.

And maybe we can look at Onion Rings at Burger King counters a little differently now.