Today's verse is Mark 2:22
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
. This passage has been a mystery to me, but as I was reading it today, I believe the Spirit brought to mind the work God, even the Holy Ghost, does in the believer. First, while the old bottles persist, we have the promise of God by Paul, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. However, even Paul also testified: If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then if is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. . .O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Now I have found that our God shows us the need before he provides the answer, so now we wait for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Therefore, we now groan, as the new wars with the old (which we are to reckon dead) till we (actually God for us) put off the corruption, to be raised in incorruption. O, what a blessed hope. Amen.
To God be the Glory
Scott
Today’s reading is Genesis 3-5, Mark 2
Tomorrow’s reading will be Genesis 6-8, Psalm 104, Mark 3
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