Shrinking Jeans And Broken Bottles

Before we exit this text, I think it would be good to look at verse 39. Incidentally Luke is the only one who includes this in his version of this story. But in verse 39 Jesus said, “But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the fresh and the new. ‘The old is better’ they say.

Why do you suppose people think the old wine is better?

It’s because they know what it tastes like. They know what it looks like, smells like, how it feels and what it will do. There is a familiarity factor.

Nobody likes the unknown. But you don’t have to read far through the Scriptures to see a pattern develop. The pattern is that God uses the unknown in the lives of faithful people to unleash his biggest movements.

Because when we don’t know what to expect….we are more prone to lean.

So happy homecoming….and brace yourselves to lean into the unknown as we watch God do more than we ever thought possible.