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 make 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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