Keith Gibbons writes

For some time now I have been trying to get to grips with the whole issue of new wineskins and new wine and how it applies to me as an individual and to us as a church family. The practicality of the lively new wine splitting old dry wineskins is easy to understand, but how do I change my “old dry wineskin” to be able to accommodate the new wine, or new move of God?

This challenge has now really hit me, and I believe it is the answer that I have been looking for, and perhaps applies to all of us.

When Jesus turned the water into wine it was not until the old wine had run out. He then filled empty vessels with wine that was far better than the old wine that had run out.

I wonder am I, are we, still trying to hang on to the dregs of the old wine when Jesus is offering us something far better?

I’m determined to empty myself, with Jesus’s help, of what was (even if it was good at the time) and open myself up to the new wine, moving forward into whatever or wherever He leads me. This may mean that the areas that I previously moved in may be finished or laid down for a time, it may mean moving into an area that previously I would have said “that’s not my sort of area, I don’t relate to that” or something like that.

This could be a real challenge, but I’m up for it, How about you?