The scriptural lesson today comes from Mark chapter 2, verse 18 down through verse 22, reading

from the new living translation of the scripture.

Notice there these words.

Once when John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Jesus and

asked, why don't your disciples fast like John's disciples and the Pharisees do?

Jesus replied, do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not.

They can't fast while the groom is with them, but someday the groom will be taken away from them

and then they will fast.

Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth?

For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before.

And no one puts wine into old wine skin, for the wine would burst the wine skins, and the wine

and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wine skins. I'm speaking today from the

subject, embrace the new. What is it new that God might be bringing to you

that was not in your thinking prior to? What new paradigm might God be showing you what new strategy,

what new way of thinking or new way of doing something

that God might be bringing to you, that we need to embrace. We don't resist change. We resist being

changed. And the body recalls from change. You know, you get used to a routine.

If you've got your knives and forks and spoons in a certain drawer in your kitchen, and if you

move them, by habit, you'll go back to the place that you used to have them if the plates

and saucers and glasses were on this side and you move them on that side out of habit you'll you'll go

back to the old place where it was because we resist change and so we don't like to embrace the new

it's it's just easy for us to just do what we've always been doing.

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