Changing your clothes
Jesus spoke about new clothes and new wineskins, in a word – new times. He said that those who wanted to belong to these new times would have to put on a new wineskin. They would have to cast aside the old wineskin and get themselves a new one.
We know that he was not really talking about new clothes but about new attitudes, new standards, and new people; for he condemned the scribes and the Pharisees who went around in fine robes but whose minds and hearts were full of decay.
The great American writer, Thoreau, surely reflected the mind of Jesus Christ when he said:
“Beware of those enterprises that require new clothes and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old one, until we have so conducted ourselves that we feel like new people in the old, and that, therefore, to retain the old would be like trying to keep new wine in old wineskins”.
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