He Is Making All Things New

 "And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”--Revelation 21:5

One of the many promises of Christ I think we often forget. Our Savior IS MAKING ALL THINGS NEW!!!  Yet, another reason WHY we don't have to default to ways nor the mentality of this world, which finds it roots grown from the hands of satan. 

I wanted to focus on ONE aspect of this promise: SIN. God created man and woman to dwell with Him. And SIN came, as the ulitmate [relationship] crasher...Just messed the whole thing up, putting a great divide between the Creator and His creation. BUT!!! We have this Wonderful yet Indescribable Creator God who gave up of Himself, His own Son to be the Bridge to lay over that divide! He made a safe way of escape from SIN and it's fruit: DEATH; through the shedding of the Blood of His Son Jesus Christ!  NOW!!! We have the opportunity to dwell with the Father  forevermore.

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 
Revelation 21:1-4

What do these passages have to do with SIN? Well, you see in this new place there will no longer be the threat of separation from our God again. Because sin and the threat of death, for the BELIEVER, has been destroyed FOREVER. Jesus satisfied this with the offering of His pure and perfect blood ONCE and FOR ALL [TIME].

"For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.  He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself." Hebrews 7:26-27 

The reality of this truth hit home the other day when my husband I witnessed the heartbreaking moment of when one of our children had to come face-to-face with their own sin. It wasn't pretty. It was heart wrenching. BUT! Now she has the image of the ugliness of sin and how it made her look(to herself and to God) and how it made her feel. My prayer is that she will   FOREVER WANT TO FLEE from anything that would cloud the image in which she was made: God's [Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."] 

The greatness about this story, and it applies to all who believe in Christ, is that although we may find ourselves constantly dusting off the dirt of this world (sin), we get to look ahead to...where ALL THINGS are NEW!


"And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”  Revelation 21:5