"even that which he seemeth to have"
i really like those sorts of quotes, they're like a mental playground. i always tied my conception of it together with the parable of the new and old wineskins from mark chapter 2:
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22And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new wineskins."
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i think of the "new wine" as the precepts of jesus' teaching, and the new wineskins as those who are ready to receive it. i feel like the new wine is coming. it's being poured all around us, waiting for a receptacle which can contain and preserve it. the turmoil we see in our world is the old wineskins rupturing, but the new wine is as abundant as our hope for a new day and a new world. i don't like using the word hope though, because it's already here. . . waiting to be realized.
so for those that have it and can receive it, only more awaits them. but those without, who have willfully refused. . . their denial will strip even the semblance of worthiness, that which they seemeth to have