Mark 2:18-22.... the parable about new wine-skins vs. old wineskins.... a hard concept to grasp in today's world when we don't use wineskins. Basically, when wine was put into a new wineskin and sealed up, it would ferment and expand, stretching out the wineskin. If you tried to use the same old wineskin again, it would attempt to expand and eventually tear a hole in it. You could try and patch it, but it wouldn't be effective because the patch wouldn't expand with the wineskin.
- Christ can't be our "patch" on our old selves.... He wasn't created to be an attachment. God is there to reorient your life around Him...not just to be added on to your own agenda....He is the agenda.
- God has everything all sewed up through Christ.
- Our deepest needs of the soul....true comfort....can only be found when communing with the Father..... when Jesus needed comfort He went to be alone and prayed to the Father.
- We know He's there! (our brain, our logic, our knowledge) But we sometimes barely feel His presence (our emotional self)
- The Christian life is a windy road with mountains so high that we can conquer the world...and valleys so low that we don't even recognize ourselves..... but we'll be ok as long as we're still moving forward...towards the goal...towards Christ.
- God will never be satisfied being 2nd place in your life.
- We want to manage our lives....but we can't....we were created to trust in something bigger than ourselves.
- Everything in your life is on the chopping block before the Father.....He has the right to alter anything. But what remains real and consistent is His love.
- Be careful about self-righteousness....you're not worthy of anything and your self-pity and misery won't help you get there. Be a Godly-mourner when confronted with your sin.
- God hates your sin more than you do.
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