When they ran out of wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, Jesus intervened to save the situation. He asked them to fill the waterpots with water. That task fell on the servants, as our text indicates. The first lesson from our text is to never underplay the power of those with blue-collar jobs. Whereas the governor of the feast did not know how the good wine came about, the servants who fetched the water knew.

While we may not by ourselves do mighty things, God can take the little things we are capable of and make something big out of them.

The second lesson is to serve as a morale boost. You may be saddled with seemingly mundane task. Taken in isolation, you may be tempted to consider what you do as insignificant; and by extension, feel little in yourself. What you have to bear in mind is that the little things that you are called to do can become something big when put in the context of God’s great plan. No one explained to the servants that the water they were told to fetch was going to be the raw material for a miracle. They only followed the line of duty; later they discovered that they had been a part of great work. While we may not by ourselves do mighty things, God can take the little things we are capable of and make something big out of them. The servants could not in any way turn water to wine, but they could at least fetch it. The issue is not whether what you are doing is small or big; rather it is whether you are doing it faithfully. The small job you are doing maybe somehow connected to a big miracle being worked out by God.