Evening: Psalms 42, 43; Luke 5:27-39
‘New wine’, for Jesus, signifies new life. New wine must be put in ‘new wineskins’; in the same way, renewed life is embodied in new customs. I once thought Jesus was teaching that new is best. I had not noticed that he also says: “No one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’” Wines are most enjoyable when allowed to mature. Old, good, mature wine was once new. You cannot have quality wines without new wine. While the new matures, you savour the old. As with wine, so with life.
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