The disciples of John
approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your
disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as
long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is
taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one patches an old cloak with
a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the
tear gets worse. People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the
skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour
new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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Reflection:
Do you already have Jesus in your life? When you already have Jesus in your life you are
already like a fresh wineskin. Fresh or new wineskin is sturdy and strong. It
can withstand the pressure when a new wine is poured into it.
This is what we become when
we already have Jesus in our lives. We can withstand whatever problems that
life would bring to us. Nobody and no problem no matter how difficult can break
us because we have Jesus in our lives.
It’s so hard for many of
us to feel the presence of Jesus because we hardly have time for Him. We don’t
invest time with Jesus yet we can invest time for other worldly things. Some of
us would even reason out that we hardly have time to be with Jesus because of
the many pressures of life.
But how come we have time
for worldly things? For example, why is it that we can squeeze in chit-chat or
gossip time? If we can chi-chat and do other worldly things why can’t we
have time for Jesus our life giver? This is the paradox of our modern time right
now: We don’t have time for Jesus yet we create time for other worldly things.
If you want to have a
fresh and positive viewpoint about your future and about life in general. Let
Jesus come into your life do not close your heart to Him in favor of the things
of this world. Which would bring you nothing at the end except more troubles
and pressures. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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