No-one puts new wine in old wine skins.
No-one repairs broken concrete with new concrete - this is my area!! Concrete doesn't dry out, concrete undergoes a long, slow, chemical reaction between the cement and the water. The reaction takes months. If concrete becomes damaged, you cannot properly repair it with new concrete. The new stuff will change its shape and its strength and will pull itself away from the concrete that it is supposed to be repairing. The repair just ends up as a lump of ineffectual material adding load to the already broken original structure.
You can't rescue a broken relationship with God whilst clinging to what made it broken in the first place. New means new - new outlook, new direction, new commitment, new person. Repentance means change. Loving one another is tricky if you are still judging one another.
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