Wine Skin

There has to be new wine skin for new wine. New wine in old wine skin won’t work- why? Because the new wine would cause the old wine skin to burst thus destroying the wine skin and wasting the wine.

Expecting God to work how He has worked in the past, is us confining God to what He can and can’t do. That in itself is limiting our faith, and reducing the power (in our opinion) of an almighty God.

I watched Mary Poppins Returns and even Jane and Micheal Banks had started to doubt whether their adventures with Mary were true; and brushed the kids aside for telling tales.

The sharing in church today about wine skin is not the same, but it’s also taking about a renewing of mindsets, to accept the new things that God has in store for us. Sometimes traditions, ie doing things without knowing why we do it and old mindsets can stand in the way of receiving new things from God. 

There’s a common saying that we can’t expect different results when we keep doing the same things. Yet, changing of oneself is the hardest thing to do. Mindsets, traditions, independence is all difficult to give up. It gives us a security, even if it is a false one.