About the only thing that never changes is the fact that eventually everything changes. Most of us don’t like change. Some of us might say we love change, but study after study finds that those that say that only really enjoy change when they themselves are the ones controling the changes.
And then Jesus enters the scene:
“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new wineskins.”
Everywhere He went Jesus made changes. That’s how He rolls. Not everyone likes that about Jesus. For many of us or first and strongest reaction to the new wine is to lament with noxious whining.
- “That’s not the way I would have done it.”
- “We’ve never done it that way before.”
- “Why would we break a perfectly good tradition?”
- “I liked it the old way better.”
- “I don’t know why we have to change this.”
What is Jesus trying to change in your life? You can hang onto the old, but all that will do is rip a hole in what God is trying to do. On the other hand, you can let Jesus make His changes, and drink deep the new wine. Who knows, you might even learn to like it.
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