God is Pouring New Wine-Are you Ready?

"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.” Mark 2:22

Tomorrow’s message from Mark 2:18–22 speaks to something many of us quietly wrestle with. In this moment, Jesus confronts people trying to fit His new covenant of grace into the old structures of performance, striving, and religious routines. He uses the image of new wine in old wineskins to reveal a powerful reality: grace and self-effort cannot coexist.

This isn’t just a theological statement—it’s a spiritual diagnosis. If your faith feels exhausting, like you’re constantly trying to prove something to God, you may be trying to fit grace into the old wineskin of performance. If joy feels distant and your walk with Jesus feels more like duty than delight, you may be clinging to external forms rather than living in the freedom He purchased for you. If guilt, shame, or fear are shaping how you approach God, you may be trusting your record more than His finished work.

Jesus didn’t come to help us manage the old. He came to make us new. The gospel is not an add-on to our efforts—it’s a total replacement. Tomorrow, we’re going to unpack this passage and let Jesus expose the places where we’ve been trying to sew grace onto old garments.

This is a word for every person who’s tired of performing, striving, or pretending. If that’s you, don’t miss this message. It might just be the moment you trade your old wineskin for the new life Jesus offers.