How a new tech spoilt an outdated one…

“No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.”-Matt 9:16(KJV)

Sometime ago I had an experience which illustrated the above saying of Jesus in this modernised age:

I got a gadget which can only be used on a C-port compliant smartphone.However,there is a way out if the phone does not have a C-port.One can actually use an OTG cable to connect the gadget to the phone.I mean connecting the gadget to the phone via the OTG…So I thought!

Voila…!

The phone got bad! I started seeing unknown alphabets and random figures on the screen.Hahaha.

Why? The phone was not OTG compliant!

So,the gadget(new cloth) damaged the smartphone(old cloth).

What is the lesson here?

We can’t put a new anointing/virtue/lifestyle etc in an old self.Even though,that is what we want most times when we pray,God waits until we purge ourselves of the old because He does not want us to destroy ourselves by this unholy alliance/connection.He gives us time to shed our old nature in order to receive the new nature.Otherwise,the new nature will tear the old self!

Stop the patching…get an upgrade instead in order to draw life from your new self.