New Wine Skin
Friday, October 15
New Wine Skin
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. Luke 5:37
On the Smithsonian channel there is a show called Air Disasters. This series reenacts catastrophic incidents in aviation history, providing insight into what went wrong and if the crashes and near-disasters could have been prevented. In one particular episode a pilot was trying to fly between two storms. The dramatic footage shows the pilots communicating with the flight control tower and receiving the news of the weather as it was developing. Though the situation was dangerous, the pilot was insisting on flying between the two storms through a narrow gap in the middle.
The day looked normal with clear beautiful skies and the sun shining, but half way through the journey two storms began coming in, getting closer to each other. Eventually the plane crash landed, losing lives and causing damage.
After the documentary, I was pondering on the mentality of the pilot. He had flown the same route over and over again successfully, and thought he could do it this time around. The problem was the situation had changed. The weather pattern was different and the danger was real.
The pilot was not considering the oncoming storm. He was complacent. Complacency is a feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to try to make them better. The pilot was complacent and unaware of the danger of the situation.
In Luke 5:33-39 Jesus was responding to the Pharisees and the scribes, when they complained about Him and His disciples not fasting, as John the Baptist’s disciples did. The Pharisees were so set in the old ways that they didn’t recognize the time of their visitation.
The time of the visitation was now.
The time for new beginnings had arrived. But, complacency left them in the past
What is God saying now, and are you willing to walk into the new thing? What is the condition of the atmosphere? Do you need to abort take off? Should you wait for God before you move? Isaiah 43:18-19 says ‘Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert’.