Old Wineskin For A New Wine

It wouldn’t work! Never! Certainly and surely it will burst eventually. The vibrancy, energetic reactions of the chemicals in the new wine would be too strong for the threadbare nature of the old wine skin.

Like terms attract , while unlike terms repel, is another way to look at this saying of “pour the old wine into an old wine skin while the new wine into the new wine skin”.

This though, a biblical principle, fits perfectly in every aspect of human endeavours.

What would it look like for instance, living in a house, well furnished to taste in the inside, while the outside, at best description is dilapidated?

What impression? having the external view of same house beautified while the the inside looks deserted and messy? Each of these scenarios makes no good image, for decent habitation.

Good inside, good outside, bad outside, bad inside, no double standard kind of life, no lukewarmness, either cold or hot, of course no running with hare and chasing with the hound.

Such is how authentic life should be lived without swings or pendulous characteristics.

Most often we are driven either by human weakness , or by certain life exigencies to live a life that portrays nothing but new wine in an old wine skin or old wine in a new wine skin. Contradictions!

When one goes back to ones vomits, feasting hungrily on things one had said no to, celebrating again the very life style one lived but bided farewell to, one is in the least living an inauthentic life of costly contradictions.

Counting on ones finger the number of spouses that live life of new wine in an old wine skin could be quite herculean. Being married but at the same time going back to the very old ways of ones youthful unmarried exuberant life of excessiveness, falls nothing short of a new wine in an old wine skin! Certainly it will burst and spill, which of course may mean shame,embrassment,reproach. Je

New wine in an old wine skin, is nothing more of being a Christian in the day, and something else behind closed doors. It will burst with time, the veiled becomes unveiled, the hidden, exposed and the secret a public knowledge.

The political culture of Nigeria has been one of an old wine in an old wine skin. The masses have endured this for years. Rotten wine and tradebare wine skin, bitter wine and haggard looking wine skin, expired wine in an expired wine skin.

This has been our story from Tafawa to Nnamdi, down to this present administration, old wine in an old wine skin has been our albatross.

The system( wine skin) has been largely weakened by corruption, vote buying, nepotism, religious sensationalism, tribal weaponization, inefficiency, etc But the wine we are brewing now isn’t of old order anymore. It is new, it is active, its reactive power too strong to be contained in that old wine skin, except otherwise one wouldn’t mind implosion and expulsion.

We are brewing a finest wine ever seen and tasted in the history of this nation. Those whose taste bud for good wine are top notch have already started celebrating the bash, the convivial mood such an excellent wine would engender in the drinking world.

When Life Beer came into the brewery scene, it took the shine off any other Beer drink that had existed. Such is what this new wine of 2023 brand is doing.

Every other wine that had previously given the drinking population a good or bad run for their money is getting eclipsed, dusked, dulled and unpopular by this new wine by day.

Not only that we are getting a good feel of this new wine, the wine skin ( the system and public consciousness) Are evolving from the old skin of complacency, tribal, religious and party politics to a new wine skin of excellence, integrity, competence, sagacity, capacity, efficiency, uncompromising etc.

Ever since the dawn of this country as an independent nation,through all its democratic processes, I have never participated in its “drinking spree”. Reason, I haven’t seen a good wine and would not stand such horrible sight of an old wine in an old wine skin. I rather not drink, than get messed up by the dregs and awful fermentation of the old wine in a very compromising wine skin.

Now that the good wine is assured in a good wine skin, drinking until I get reasonably fulfilled isn’t negotiable.

We will drink the new wine not because it is of any tribe, religion, culture, language etc brand or signature, but because it is a good wine brewed to guarantee the liveliness of our hearts

2023, a year of good wine in a good wine skin! Let the drinking continue for the WINE is good and the WINE SKIN TOPNOTCH

Jarlath Uche Opara

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