Bible Verse of The Day – 3-4-23

Mark 2:22 (NKJV) 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

A new wine skin expands as the wine that’s being stored in it ferments.

If we were to pour new wine into an old wine skin, the gasses and unfermented juices would cause that old skin to burst. The wine would be lost, and the wine skin would be ruined.

As believers, sometimes we want new things but we don’t want to let go of the old. We don’t want things to change.

But just as the old wine skin is not good enough to hold the new wine, so it can be with us.

We often need to empty ourselves of the old things, our routines and our old ways of thinking, before God can bring in the new things He has for us to do.

We may not always understand everything right away, but if we are willing to let God bring the change we will get clarity as we follow.

The important lesson is learning to let God help us let go of the old so the new change will be able to grow freely in us.

Speaking from my own personal experience with moving from RI to NC, I tried and tried to keep that old thing going. I was trying to cling to many of the familiar things that I had known for so long.

Trying to do the same thing as I did in RI was not working. As a matter of fact, a part of me was feeling like I was at a standstill.

In my prayer one day, God brought the above scripture to me about the wine and the wineskins. He said that as long as I continue to keep the old things going there was not any room for the new things.

I was like, “What?”.

I was bothered at first, thinking “what am I missing?”. I moved here to NC, didn’t I?

You see, what I learned was that I did leave RI physically. However, my heart was still there, still trying to cling and hold on to some things that were dear to me. I was still there emotionally, doing the same old things, just from a different location.

Sometimes all it takes is getting a little more understanding and making the correction or adjustment within our hearts and minds that we need to make.

Let us not remain in the old wine skin (place). Embrace the new skin and the new wine that He will pour into it!

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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