New wineskins or old
I remember reading a story one time of a father who was trying to read the Sunday newspaper. His young son was constantly interrupting him with questions of all kinds. Finally, in an effort to keep his son busy for a while, he came upon a big picture of the world in the paper, so he took his scissors and proceeded to “cut the world” up into a giant jigsaw puzzle, then he gave it to his son and told him to busy himself with the puzzle. It wasn’t long before the boy came back into the room where his father was reading and he said, “It’s done, Dad. I’ve got the world put back together.” His father couldn’t understand how quickly he had done that, so when he asked him, the little boy said, “I couldn’t figure out how to put the pieces of the world together, so I turned the pieces of paper over and soon saw that it was a picture of Jesus. When I got Jesus put together, then the whole world was put together!” That’s a great assessment, isn’t it? When Jesus is put together right, the whole world is put together right!