"Jesus replied, "Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. They can't fast while they are with the groom. But someday He will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. And who would patch an old garment with unshrunk cloth? For the new patch shrinks and pulls away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger hole than before. And no one puts new wine in an old wineskin. The wine would burst the wineskin, spilling the wine and ruining the skin. New wine needs new wineskin."-Luke 2:19-22
These verses say a lot about what Grace is. Grace can bind up the holes in your Heart everyday. It needs to be new everyday. We need to get rid of the old and put in the new. When we are "healthy" we don't need a doctor to help us. It is when we are sick that we need the doctor. As Christians, we a sick in sin. We need Jesus to be our Healer and heal us with His Grace everyday. He did it once on the cross and that was big but He does it everyday too. Sin is all over us like sickness can be. We could "catch" sin like we catch a sickness. We could gossip, tell lies, or treat someone badly. We could also talk about doing things but then not do them.
We cannot try to cover sin up with good works like verses 19-22 says. Good works is the old way of doing things. That is the main treatment everyone tries but it does not work. People try to fit good works (old wine) into the new skin (their new life) but it doesn't work that way. The old garment will eventfully get rid of the new patch because it is not the same size. It will shrink and pull away from the old garment. You will eventfully lose hope if you keep trying to path the old with the new cloth. It leaves a bigger hole and problem to be fixed.
When you put a new patch (grace) on a new garment (life in Christ) then it can grow "old" together. Grace is a gift that you can get with your new life in Christ. We don't do anything to get the Grace it is give to use because it fits the "garment" perfectly. It fits us perfectly where good works can never fit. We try to cover up our bad spots by doing good works but it wears us down. Grace gives us the energy and hope that we need to move forwards. With Grace, we keep growing old but we learn so many new things in Christ. Christ's Word and saving Grace never gets old. It is new each morning so new that it fits us perfectly where we need it to fit for that day. It fits our lives and the situations we are in at certain times in our lives but we never run out.
Thought for Today: "God's Grace is new EVERY morning/day. It can patch up the oldest and biggest hole in my life."
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