What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?
The oldest thing I was wearing today was a pair of jeans that I bought while working overseas. There’s nothing more comfortable than a good pair of jeans. They are often more comfortable because they have been worn and washed multiple times, making the fabric softer and more familiar.
Sometimes the old things we wear could hold sentimental value, reminding individuals of significant events or loved ones or vintage or worn-in clothing can be a part of one’s personal style, reflecting a preference for a certain aesthetic or era.
God‘s people were comfortable with the Old Covenant like a comfortable old pair of blue jeans. They just didn’t know how let it go and embrace the New. Luke 5:38 said; for he says “the old is better”.
In Luke 5, Jesus was teaching his disciples about the New Covenant.
Luke 5:36–39 (MEV): 36 He told them a parable also: “No one sews a piece of a new material on an old one. Otherwise the new would tear, for the new piece does not match the old. 37 *And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled, and the wineskins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new. For he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
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