The New Wine
Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’” (Luke 5:36-39) When God's Kingdom comes, it brings a new way of seeing ourselves and everything around us. It is not that we did not see, but we did not see God ! Our ability to perceive and understand spiritual things lies dormant until the Holy Spirit has quickened our spirits. Only then does the Word of the Lord begin to make sense and the Way become clear. This clarity is the birthright of the saint alone, while every other person walks in the darkness of the old; for only Christ c...