So far in the book of John we have been introduced to Jesus, the Son of God, completely divine and yet somehow completely human. We have been painted a picture of the Messiah as the Creator of the world, the Word who was with God and was God, who was not only before all things but is the very reason that all things exist and hold together. The Word became flesh means that God became a man. He was conceived and born into weakness. Weakness was not cast upon Him, He took it upon Himself, He limited Himself to time and space, the Lion became the Lamb and rather than judging our sin He paid for it, rather than pouring out His wrath He contained it within Himself and gave us grace that forgives, redeems, restores and reconciles. As John wrote in 1:18 of his gospel, “No one has seen God at any time”, but Jesus the only begotten Son of God, who is loved by God, came so that He could make His Father known to us. What did Jesus come to make known? That God is in fact our Father, that He sees us, that He knows us, that He desires us and enjoys us, but above all else, Jesus came to reveal that this God is not only a Creator, Sustainer, Shepherd Provider and Protector, He calls Himself our Father because He loves us. Love is the basis of significance. For something to be thought of as significant it is important, large, valuable and worthy of consideration. Insignificance is simply the converse, to small or unimportant to be worth consideration. The problem is that we measure significance by how we are affected. Let’s be honest, news about weather tragedies such as wild fires, hurricanes, droughts, monsoons or earthquakes move us to the extent that we have loved ones or invested interest in the areas that are affected. We take notice but our lives are not affected and so while the disasters are large and we know that, we have not made them significant because our day to day lives are little if at all affected. The reason the refugee crisis and genocide of Syria have become so great and have gotten such little concern is quite simply because Syria is not a place most of us have knowledge of, interest in or ties to. Can you imagine what the response of the world would be if the exact same circumstances were happening in a country that we have ties to, roots from or investment in? It’s not just Syria, in our lifetime there have been genocides in Cambodia, Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, Mozambique and other nations. Millions of people killed, literally streets filled with the dead and we have been largely silent because we have been largely unmoved because we have been largely unaffected. These tragedies and injustices cannot be measured as insignificant because we have been unaffected. The measure of significance is not supposed to be how we are affected, significance must be based on love. Love means that what has been unseen, unthought of, uncared about and unnoticed is now taken seriously, thought of carefully and handled patiently, not because I’m more affected but because love looks closely, cares deeply and moves thoughtfully. Jesus came to be the image of the invisible God, to show us God’s heart, God’s mind, God’s character and God’s love. As we will discuss many times during this series, in John 5 Jesus said that He never did anything other than what He saw the Father doing, this means that Jesus did not come to show God what it was like to be a man, He came to show man what God was truly like, we didn’t need the sympathy of God, we have always had that, we needed a revelation of the character of love, patience, kindness and humility of the One who formed us, breathed into us and was now coming to redeem, restore and save us. This morning we see the first recorded miracle of Jesus’ life and ministry which begins to show us how incredibly loved we truly are. It’s a miracle that doesn’t heal a disease, cast out a demon or raise the dead, a miracle that only a handful of people ever knew about and that many wouldn’t even care about, it’s a miracle that may seem very insignificant in many ways but it’s a miracle that actually teaches us that Jesus came to give significance to who and what had been deemed as insignificant.