New Wineskins

I act as admin for our church's web site, www.lambofgodlutheran.com.  I recently updated to a newer version of WordPress.  One of the plugins that we had been using did not make the transition nicely.  I have temporarily shut down that portion of our site until an updated plugin, compatible with the newer version of WordPress, gets released.

There is a lesson from this as a parable.

• The importance of counting the cost. 
  I hadn't considered all of the impacts that the update might have. Decisions made in life have consequences.
  
  Satan sold Adam and Eve an "update" that was supposed to make them wise. Instead, it made them fools.
  
  Jesus comes with an offer of an update with the ultimate positive consequence.  He makes all things new.
  
  
  
  2 Cor 5: 17 says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
  
  And Revelation 21:5 says "He who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!' Then he said, 'Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'"

He makes all things new. New wine...new wineskins...new life.