The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he also told them a parable.“No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
REFLECTION
no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Sometimes I ask God to change me or a situation in my life and before long I start noticing changes in me.
St Paul told the Corinthians that the Lord brings to light what is hidden in darkness and knows the motives of the heart.
When God takes over, good habits replace bad, joy and happiness stand out where anger, skepticism, mistrust and contradiction once lived. Pride loses its special spot in our daily routine to make room for humility.
Time and time again, God tells us that He loves us with a deliberate, deeply personal affection. Change and true atonement for our sins and disordered affections are our gifts to Him as we are filled with His love in our new wine skins.
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