Gospel: Mark 2:18-22
The disciples of John and of the Pharisees
were accustomed to fast. People came to Jesus and objected, “Why do the
disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples
do not fast? Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the
bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they
cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them
and then they will fast on that day. No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on
an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and
the tear gets worse. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and
both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh
wineskins.”
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Reflection:
What is Jesus desire for you? It’s to
transform you so that you could become fresh wineskin so that He could pour
Himself into you. Jesus is the new wine and you are the old wineskin but Jesus
doesn’t want you to become old wineskin which cannot accept His renewing
presence. He wants you to be renewed or to be the fresh wineskin so that He
could come into your life.
What makes us old wineskins or what makes
us unworthy for the presence of Jesus? It’s our many sins, these many sins
makes us unworthy to Jesus. Nevertheless, Jesus is also offering Himself to us
so that he could cleanse us and make us new once again
Will you let Jesus into your life so that
He could make things new for you? Or you will continue to shut your heart to
Jesus? The choice is yours, if you want to remain contained in the old wineskin
of sin or you allow Jesus to renew you and liberate you from sin.
The correct choice is always to allow Jesus
entry into your life and to allow Jesus to make things new in your life once
again. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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