The Book of Revelation Devotions Day 67
DAY 67
He makes all things new! He doesn’t throw us out and start over. He makes us new, he redeems us and makes us a new creature. What a beautiful expression of healing and restoration.
He made a New Covenant, a perfect one, that could not be broken because it did not depend upon us to be successful, it solely depended on the Lamb to carry it out. It is a permanent covenant that was completed when Jesus said, “It is finished.” There is nothing left to do to fulfill that covenant, it is done, completed, carried out. And we get to walk in that covenant for the rest of time. We get to claim it. It allows us to enter the throne room and stand before our Heavenly Father (and call Him Father), it allows us to enter Heaven, it allows us to tell the enemy, satan and all of his minions, to get lost and leave us alone in the name of Jesus, it allows us to walk in victory over sin or anything else that wants to make a false covenant with us.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
We are new creations when we choose salvation, and we continue to be renewed as we experience sanctification.
Nothing is exempt from the hand of God as He makes all things new when the end comes and satan is thrown into the lake of fire. We will be made new in glorified bodies instead of these tired, old, flawed ones. All of creation will finally be made new. Perhaps this is why the Bible says that all of creation groans for that time.
Romans 8:18-23 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
The same is true for earth itself.
Revelation 21:4-5 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Everything. Not just some things, not just a few things, not even most things. Everything. He is making everything new! He has already started, not past tense or future tense, not made or will make. He said, I am making everything new! We get to rest in the fact that He is already at work, whether we see it yet or not. Everything that we don’t like about this world will be gone. No pain, mourning, crying, or death. No funerals, no injuries, no cancer or other diseases. All the things that we know need to change about us will be changed. He is already starting on that in our process of sanctification and that will continue until we are glorified in Heaven and our physical bodies are exchanged for a perfect heavenly body. What a promise!
Jesus, help me to remember that you are already making all things new. Help me to cooperate with you on this. Help me to see myself and everything around me and everything I face in my life through your eyes. Help me to see your hand at work as you make all things new. Thank you for this, thank you that you are willing to renew rather than throwing us away and starting over. Thank you for your patience, love and grace. Help me to walk in your new life.