Patched Up or Made New?

Mark 2:19-22. 
19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

You do not patch an old soft leather bag with a new hard piece of leather which is not broken in yet, because it will tear out the stitching of the older material.  So mourning and fasting for Jesus here was out of place while He was with them still.  There is time for rejoicing in Him, and time for sorrows, just as in all of life.  We rejoice in Him always now that He is risen.  We have been made new inside, and so do not tear with old still holding us together.