the past couple of weeks have been up and down, if i remember correctly. last week i somehow got rather sleep deprived and therefore grumpy. so i rectified the situation yesterday (thanks to jackie's LSAT class, no less) and slept 10 hrs!!! :) felt soo good. although i was still rudely awakened by my alarm...
but anyhow, tonight i had a rather thrilling revelation! well, at least, i never really understood the parable of the old and new wine skins - i distinctly doing a bible study on this very topic two years ago (or so) and trying to figure out why old wine belongs in old wineskins and new wine in new wineskins. basically it was really really confusing. and tonight, at chi alpha, we were looking at this text (to do with fasting) and i suddenly had this realization as to why new wine goes in new wineskins and all that, and the oddest thing was that it was connected to my work (and i just realized my colleague spelt my name wrongly on my blogpost -_- incidentally interestingly enough it was the mention of my work and this particular book of the bible that reminded me to look at the company blog) anyway here's the passage:
Luke 5:
33 Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
anyhow, when i saw 'the old is better' i suddenly realized that it bore resemblance to all the support emails i've been trawling through - people complaining that the old Bluepulse was better and that the new one sucks (even though the new one does have better features/speed/etc). anyway it struck a chord in me and then i looked to verse 33 and realized that the old wine is like the old covenant with laws and all that, and the new wine is Jesus coming with the new covenant based on love... and how people are resistant to change (which my fellow support-colleagues have told me many many times). pretty amazing.
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