Old Turns New
Matthew 9:16-17 “No
one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull
away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do men pour new wine
into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and
the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and
both are preserved.”
ONE of the challenges we face as we seek to live a
Christ-centered life is to truly let go of our old habits to put on a
completely new way of life. We understand God’s teachings to be clothed in
Jesus-like ways of being. We know it is good to have every fabric of our life stitched
in what God defines as good—righteous.
But we have a
difficult time putting on the new garment of righteousness completely, don’t
we? We may love that person but not
that one who really hurt us. Or we may find it good to be more intent on forgiveness,
but certainly we have to be angry sometimes!
Jesus is telling the
Pharisees that this kind of “patch-work” faith doesn’t work. He calls us to
live in a new life, not wearing Jesus on one sleeve and evil on the other, but
being clothed completely in our Lord’s new life. Paul said it this way in 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 So from now on we
regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in
this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Submit to Jesus
and be totally new.
LIFE Link: Faith can grow one stitch at a time.
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