"Jesus told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old."
- Luke 5:36
God is in the business of complete overhaul renovation, not trendy patchwork improvements. What a zombie needs isn’t to be taken to H&M to pick out a new outfit and taken to a fancy barber for a fresh, hipster haircut. What a zombie needs is for someone to come and make it human again from the inside out.
There’s a way of doing Christianity that’s more like trying to give a zombie a makeover, like white-washing tombs, than it is like dead people being made alive, broken people being made new.
It's not about trying to add Jesus as a noddy badge to our high-functional, self-righteous, ticking all the religious boxes, striving existence. Tearing off some of Jesus when it suits us to patch the holes of our loneliness, sadness, disappointments, insecurities.
It's all or nothing. We need to be born again of the Spirit, receive a new heart of flesh that is after God to replace our hearts of stone. We need to be transformed by His power through the renewing of our minds, and open up all the doors that Jesus knocks at allowing Him to fill us in every way.
As John Legend would say, "All of [Jesus] wants all of you." Just little patches will never do.
