Colossians 1:15-20 / Luke 5:33-39 (2019)
One of the things in life that is not that easy to accept is change.
Maybe because we have our reservations about change. We wonder if it will be for the better or for the worse?
For e.g., when we change our electronic gadgets like our handphones or computer. There is a whole lot of relearning to do and we spend quite a bit of unproductive time getting used to it. And we may end up not liking the change at all!
Even Jesus acknowledged that change is not all that easy to accept when He said in the gospel that "The old is good".
But yet Jesus did not say that the new would not be good.
Hence the example of the new wine in new wineskins is indeed a good illustration.
The new wine, over time, would be just as good, and maybe even better than the old wine.
Jesus came to renew all creation. He came to renew all humanity so that mankind can now have a deeper life and existence.
In the beginning, man was made in the image and likeness of God. But sin distorted that image.
But now because of Jesus, mankind is recreated in the image of God again.
For that reason, St. Paul says in the 1st reading that Jesus is the first-born of all creation.
So it all simply comes down to this - God became man, so that man can go back to God. That indeed is a wonderful change