New Wine

Mark 2:18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

All wine connoisseurs know that the longer you let wine age the better it gets. And as it ferments, if it’s in an old wine skin, it will burst the skin from the gasses it produces. Where as a new wine skin is flexible and capable of expanding to contain the gasses. When you make new wine there is uncertainty as to how it will come out. Some times its bitter, sometimes its sweet, sometimes it does not ferment right. So it can be a strange experiment in making new wine.
This is symbolic of us as we get stuck in our comfort zones and refuse to let go of the old to follow God into the new things He wants to do with our lives and our churches. If God poured the new into your comfort zones then it would literally destroy you on the inside because your comfort zones cannot contain what is produced by what God pours into you. So God has to make us new as a new wine skin so we can expand to contain the blessings He is going to pour into us.
Eph 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom wevery family3 in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to xthe riches of his glory yhe may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit zin your inner being, 17 aso that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being brooted and cgrounded in love, 18 may have strength to dcomprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and eheight and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ fthat surpasses knowledge, that gyou may be filled with all hthe fullness of God.
The question is do we remain in our comfort zones because it’s easy or do we step out through the fear of the unknown and follow God? Do we remain inside our comfort zones and stay in the same old humdrumness that we been in for no telling how long or do we open our hearts up to God to be made new and receive the blessings God has ordained for our lives?
I petition all of you to open up and allow God to pour in the new wine and to bring you out of the comfort zones that is your life and let it become His life so that His true will may be done through you and those around you.
May God richly bless you and fill you with all His goodness and new things.