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14 Then the disciples of John approached him and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast [much], but your disciples do not fast?” 15 Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.[a] 16 No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth,[b] for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse. 17 People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”-Matthew9:14-17
I tried to sew a
piece of cotton cloth with a different type of cloth. No matter how
good I sew it with a machine, it just won't work. There is reason and
logic in the ordinariness of life and in the simple things we do
everyday like putting water in a glass. Today, Jesus is teaching us -
not only the reason and logic behind patching cloths and putting new
wine into new wineskins - but its deeper meaning that can be applied
to life as a whole. Jesus is not disregarding the Old - prophets and
the Law - just because He teaches differently and with authority.
Rather, He fulfills it. We can say a fusion of two worlds - each
complementing the other.
The 'New' is not
always the answer; the 'Old' does not always have the answer.
Sometimes the brand new 'me,' may work out and at other times, it may
not. We need the past to help our present, and we need the present to
mold the future. We bring to present the lessons of the past to help
shape our future.
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