Everything new

 Everything New

 

The one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!”

REVELATION 21.5

Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

ROMANS 8.20-21

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

2 CORINTHIANS 5.17

 

t’s a new year. And don’t we love new? A new outfit, a car that still has that “new car” smell, a new recipe to fix for dinner, a new video game to conquer? But all around us, instead of new, we see things that are used and broken down — neighbourhoods that are run down, relationships that fall apart, bodies that don’t work as well as they used to. The reality is that everything on this earth is wearing out. Everything breaks down.

And in the midst of that reality, God says, “I am making everything new!” When we hear this we typically think new in terms of replacing something old. But God doesn’t say he is making all new things. He is making all things new — in other words, he’s making things better, fresher, brighter, and stronger.

And this is good news for those of us who want a fresh start, those who don’t want to surrender to “that’s just the way I am, the way I’ve always been. I can never change.” Even now God is moving into our lives that are full of mistakes, and he’s making us new. The process begins when God makes himself known to us in the deadness of our sin and we awaken to him. He touches our lives, and the dead places become alive again, fresh again. Right now, God is giving his people new thoughts, new hearts, new purpose, new energy for this new year ahead. And he wants to do something new in you, too.