The First Miracle, Part 2

John 2:1-11, Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

What I find interesting about Mary's request, is that she didn't even ask him specifically to do something, she simply presented him with her problem "They have no more wine" (v. 3). She could have asked him to answer in the specific way she wanted him to fix it..."can you go out and get some more?" or "can you perform a miracle to fix this?" or "can you tell everyone to leave before they find out?". But all she did was come to him with the problem and allowed him to answer in the way he saw fit.

Then, she told the servants "do whatever he tells you" (v.5). In saying this, she is not only still leaving the answer up to him, but she is also trusting because he never said to her "yes, this is what I'm about to do...!". Also, she is offering to him the means she has so he may act. Not that he needed the provision, but she offered what she had to him to do with as he saw fit.

So in these three short verses, she does the following:
1) She had the freedom to approach and ask (Eph. 3:12)
2) She trusted and had a submissive enough heart to leave not only the answer up to him, but also the way in which to answer, even if the answer was "no" or "not yet" (Prov. 3:5)
3) She offered up all she had for him to use as he pleased (Luke 9:24)