All Things New

As I was driving today, I was just pondering my own sin, and it sucked. I was just in one of those moods that really gets you down for no particular reason, and it occurred to me that it’s those times that show you who you really are.

Sometimes when I get a glimpse of who I really am, I don’t like it.

I screw up all the time, and I am not who I appear to be on the outside. I am a hypocrite, a liar, a cheat, an incorrigible sinner who pursues his own desires far too often. It sucks to realize this. It does not feel good. It does not put one in a better mood.

I began to just pray about it and confess, and started listening to a song on my iPod by a friend of mine. As I prayed, I just felt God urging me to come back to Him, and I heard His gentle reminder:

“Behold, I am making all things new.”

The King is coming, and He is coming in power, and He is coming in glory. He is coming to make all things new. He is coming to dwell wholly with His people. His coming will change everything.

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away” (Revelation 21:3-4).

Sin will be no more.

There will be no more struggle.

There will be no more hurt.

no more pain.

no more sorrow.

no more brokenness.

no more poverty.

no more disease.

no more hatred.

no more war.

no more death.

All things, all people, will come before the One who sits on the Throne of Heaven and declare that He is King of kings and Lord of lords.

Usually it’s so tough to think about the impact of this—the coming that is so far away and so far removed from the physical, tangible present that overwhelms us. But today, when I heard this whisper,

“Behold, I am making all things new,”

it hit me on a new level. God was speaking this into my life—right here, right now. It was for me. I felt the reality that not only is God making everything in His creation new, He is making me new as well. And this addendum changes everything.

“Behold, I am making all things new—even you.”

There is hope for a future. A glorious future in which we will be one with the Father and He will dwell with us. But it is not here yet.

There is hope for now. In Christ, we have been made new creations—the old is gone, and the new has come. It is here now, and it is salvation for all that believe in the name of Jesus.

Behold what the Lord is doing. Behold Him making all things new. Behold Him, our coming King and present Salvation, in whose Name is hope for all nations and all creation.

I pray that we all can know the reality of a new creation in our lives. I pray we can all hear the voice of the Lord speaking to us, “Behold, I am making all things new.”

Amen.