1 Corinthians 4:1-5, Luke 5:33-39
Human history is a continuum. Life is dynamic and we must be open to new ideas and the new things God is doing in our lives every day. We are bundles of possibilities as the whole earth is a garden open for continuous tilling and cultivation.
God, who is complete in himself make all things complete though in potency. This means that we contain what we shall be. We only need to strive to bring out our stuff through pruning, training and discipline. We equally need to accommodate the new things God does in others and through others, because no one is a finished product. We evolve every day.
Likewise, in our spiritual observances, we must be open to the new things the spirit of God is doing in us and others. When we are too traditional or fixed on one way of looking at God, we run the risk of losing the full contents of what he wants to achieve in us and through us. That is why we must learn to read the spirit of the law and not be enslaved by the letter of the law.
In the gospel of Luke 5:33-39, when the pharisees accused Jesus’s disciples of not fasting like John’s disciples, he told them, “Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come, the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them; that will be the time when they will fast.”
Jesus opened their minds to a new understanding of relating with God, using what is familiar to them. He used that occasion to give them an idea of the time when he would be killed, and the disciples would begin to sorrow. More so, “he also told them this parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.”
We do not always know God’s plans for our generation at a particular time. We need to be disposed and open our hearts so that we do not miss the new things he wants to achieve in us every time every moment.
May no old ways blur our view of the greater plans of God in our lives. Amen.
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