When God called the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage to inherit the land of Canaan He gave them a law of His own. In the keeping of it they were to taste joys and blessings which no other nation could have. They were to have no plagues, no diseases, no blights; their corn, their wine, their oil, their cattle and sheep would abound, and no enemy would be able to prevail against them. These are joys that every man can appreciate.

But when Christ came to call sinners to repentance, to deliver them from the guilt and the power of sin, to bring them into communion with His Father, and to make them partakers of the joys of Heaven, men had to become "new bottles" before they could take in the new joys-that "new wine." They must be born anew.

Every man is still ready to drink that "old wine" of earthly blessings, but alas, how few care for the "new wine " of heavenly blessing. Yet is it the one that will never run out.