desgarrará el nuevo (Tearing The New)” [Spanish Jerusalem Bible series Luke 5:33-39-A; 10:25-37]

New patches placed to fix a hole,
If made of un-shrunk cloth will go
Into the breach and looked quite good
(For just a while – that’s understood) –

For once it’s wet, the patch shrinks back;
The newer cloth gets torn, and that
Is not ideal – old jeans before
Adjusted – can’t adjust much more.

But new pulls back, adjusts, and shrinks;
It always does – so one must think
How best to mix both old and new
(In Jesus’ day – Gentile and Jew).

For Goodness’ sake read Scripture tome –
The Jews had forty years to roam,
In which the old died off and left
The new and tough – unlike the rest.

Now they were old and facing new;
Adjustments to their culture’s views
Were out of order – good for them,
But trouble loomed if one should blend –

The old and new – my quest indeed –
The part we missed – each culture needs
A word that’s keyed exactly right
For lock that’s theirs – on door shut tight.

desgarrará el nuevo says
The new gets torn – that’s not okay;
Apostles hop the boundary walls
Twixt cultures new – and that is all –

We missed, but now my quest is done;
The “Kingdom-layer”; the “evil one”;
And all the other insights gained
I hold for those who still remain.

But they don’t want or need the patch –
New cultures, generations, hatch
New ways to use the Kingdom-news
Unmixed, un-torn, by older views.

What makes you think new folks will buy
The answers to the old-folks “why”?
Ask for their questions; find each key
To fit their locks of desperate need.

That is your task – ten years the gap
Of mentorship – disciple that –
Four, twelve, and seven-two works well
Don’t pass by beat-up folks in hell.

Thanks Lord for this.

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