There is indeed a time for everything yet do we only want to feast and dance? Holding on tightly to pleasures alone, leads to sin for we lose sight of everything that draws us close to God. It is only when we empty ourselves of worldliness that we can truly encounter God and be filled with His Graces.
To be filled by Him Who truly loves us, can we remain unrepentant? Can we hold on tightly, even stubbornly to our old way of lives refusing to bear our crosses? Refusing to be born into new life with Him, to be cleansed, to be made pure? All that is required from us is a “Yes Lord, I humbly come before You. Help me.”
Lord Jesus, help me to always remain steadfast in Your love. Let me never revert to my sinful way of life otherwise I will surely burst at the seams and lose everything; my Lord, my God. Amen
GOSPEL
Luke 5:33–39
The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus,
“The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
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