
Author
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
Summary: There is a new wine of the Spirit that requires a new wineskin to hold it. The old wineskin of our old nature cannot hold this new wine, and so we must throw it away and be born again. We are the temple where the Spirit dwells, and by the grace of Salvation, we have a new identity as the Son of God. God calls us to immerse ourselves in his waters and sit at his table, where he is waiting for us with open arms.
There is a new wine for those who thirst for the Word, and even more, for those who are still lost in the false promises of a better world without God. There is a recently fermented wine that requires new resistant and firm wineskins so that they do not break and spill. God worked the sowing in his immense vineyard, Christ harvested the vine in his heart in obedience to his Father and as if that were not enough, he paid the full price of all the farming with his life, providing free wages to the workers without any of them deserving it. And the Spirit, since then, never tires of offering such great benefit to this humanity; they are cups covered in a sweet must, nectar from heaven, like manna enriched by the anointing procured in the harmonic oneness of all deity. The created being, despite this, prefers to ignore its creator, but He prefers to keep saving the best wine for the end of the party.
There is a man in need, who in his self-sufficiency seeks the acceptance of the world. He is an expert in judging and trying to control his fellow man, believing he has such authority. He claims to feel full because of his dedication to folly, but he is empty because of impiety. He claims to have found happiness and purpose for his existence, but is consumed while alive by the vice of his delusions rigged by the prince of darkness, who promises success and good times at the cost of devouring his soul. Their wineskins are as old as their soul, they cannot be mended, they are worn and they do not resist the freshness of the Spirit's anointing with its new wine, with its new purity, with the hope that it brings with it, in its texture, in its smell, in its renewed structure of breaths and new dreams. This man needs to be born again.
There is a divine plan for this world, but we already knew the Truth and the Spirit longs for us to throw away our old wineskins to be poured into each one of us. We cannot receive the new wine in the wineskin of our old nature (the old wineskin), because it is dispersed and no such wineskin exists; It is like throwing it into the void, into nothingness. And it is lost. And although the Father has vineyards that produce abundantly that wine in his heavenly gardens, it is necessary that we receive it in a new wineskin, because otherwise, it is wasted without remedies and there is much need.
The new wineskin (what you are now in Christ as a new creature, your new identity as the Son of God) needs that new wine of the Spirit; yearns for it because you are (we are) the temple where the Spirit dwells, because we are spiritual by the new birth and by the simple and miraculous fact of having received the grace of Salvation by faith.
Do you want this new wine? Throw away your old wineskins! At the end of the day it is the only thing you have to do. Do not be like those who ask every day for a fresh anointing of the Spirit and are still girded with the old ties of their old wineskins and their capital sins camouflaged with robes of holiness. Not! God calls you to sanity as He once called me. I was thirsty and the Spirit took it away from me and although my flesh is still the enemy of God, I yearn every day to be more aware of the price that my Redeemer paid to put me in the seat of honor that I do not deserve. You are also in that place. Do not forget!
God calls the thirsty to immerse themselves in his waters. It costs you nothing, it's free. It does not put strings attached to you, nor does it require tuxedos and sparkly sequins to impress him. He only invites you to drink his wine, eat his food and sit at his table. It's free. The world ignores such a tremendous promise. The table is set and He is already sitting waiting for you. Doesn't it whet your appetite?
God bless you!