SPILL THE WINE
Wine
Whine
Wino
Whine
Wino
Wind
Win
Wins
Wink
Old Wine
New Wine
Drunk With Wine
New Wine Bottles
Old Wine Bottles
Fruit Of The Vine
Vineyard
Squeeze The Grapes
Wine Press
Ferment
Good Wine Takes Time
Time In A Bottle
Spill The Wine
Wine-ding Road
Wine Glasses
Wine Cooler
Wine Cellar
Dusty Old Bottle
Wine And Cheese
Wine And Dine
Wine And Dine
Winery
Grapes Of Wrath
Prune The Vine
I Am The Vine - You Are
The Branches
Red Wine
White Wine
The Wine Of A New
Covenant
We Leak
It's
true - we leak. We go to bed feeling pretty good about life, and we wake up
feeling like the weight of the world is on us. We hear a song that warms our
heart and minutes later we are cussing out the driver of the car that pulled
out in front of us. Sunday we make up our mind to turn over a new leaf and
Thursday we are struggling with the same old failure.
We
leak, but why? It is not because we don’t try hard enough. It is not because we
are not sincere. It is not because we don’t have the willpower. It is not
because we are bad. And no, God is not mad at you. So why? Why is it so easy to
feel bad, and so difficult to maintain the good? Why?
The
short answer is “we leak”.
Jesus
spoke a little parable:
“And no one puts new
wine into old wineskins;
if he does,
the wine will burst the
skins,
and the wine is lost,
and so are the skins;
but new wine is for
fresh skins."
Like
new wine, new life will produce new energy. New wine is worthy of new bottles.
New wine demands new bottles. New life is worthy of a new dwelling place. New
life cannot dwell in an old lifestyle. The energy produced out of a new life
cannot be contained in an old worthless lifestyle. The new life demands a
worthy lifestyle. Otherwise, you will leak.
Don’t
be a leaker, be a seeker!
The
really good news for all of us leakers is that the mercy of Father God is new
every morning! No matter how we leaked yesterday, today, if we ask, he will
fill us again! And, if we ask, he will clothe us so that we can contain his
life!
Courtney,
You
know that this is true. You have been living the new life. You have also been
enjoying the fruits of the new life. The new life is better than the old life.
I
am so proud of you! Keep the goals of new life in mind as you begin your new
classes! You can do this. You will do this.
I
love you.
Dad.
