Behold, I Make All Things New!

 

May The Grace Mercy and Peace of God be with each one reading today!

God has given us all a brand New Year in the Lord!     We look forward to the New Year with much hope, anticipation and excitement.

No matter what our lot is life is, I think we all can say that we enjoy new things!  Have you watched a child when they get a new toy, a ball, or even a piece of candy!  Such happiness and excitement!   Even as adults we might get a new bicycle, phone, or camera which causes us a temporary feeling of happiness.

But then………………  the candy is gone, the toy breaks, the camera falls into a water puddle.  In other words life happens.  Let us look today at what our Lord says to us when we look at life and find it to be wanting.  

This same thing happened to all mankind when sin entered the world so many years ago in the Garden of Eden.  Sin entered the world and destruction and death began. 

Let’s look into God’s Word: 

Revelation: 21: 5   ..... behold, I make all things new!!    Our Lord God Almighty, the one that sits upon the throne, the one that created all things, says:  Behold, I make all things new! 

See, God is in the creation business, not in the fix up business.  He is not that type of a God that can only fix the small things, neither is He limited in what He can do for us by and through His Son Jesus Christ! 

 2 Corinth 5:17    Says:   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new..

While the devil seeks to destroy and tear down, God creates and recreates!  God makes us new creatures in Christ Jesus!   There is no news that is more encouraging than to know that when we believe by faith in the complete redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have become new! 

Dear believing reader today!  You are brand new!  Go into the New Year, knowing that the faith He has given is  not of ourselves, it is a gift of God.     Therefore we know that it cannot and will not become old or tarnished!  The things of God are new and fresh!   It is not New Year’s resolutions that will help us in the New Year.  It is the work of Jesus Christ the makes men new!

I believe this is made so very clear even in the discussion of the old and new covenants.

Hebrews 8:13   In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away ……………….

 Now we have a new and living way in Christ Jesus!

Hebrews 10:10 says:  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The old covenant, the old way would have us to do and live but the new covenant says Live and Do!    Life is in Christ.  Whatever we do when we are in Christ, it is because of Him allowing us to do as He is working in and through us by the power of His Holy Spirit!   Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me

This New Year, God wants us to have a new song in our heart!  Psalm 98 v 1  O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Are you feeling without hope?    Recall to mind the Word of God in Lamentations 3:23   ²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. ²²It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.    BEHOLD!!!! All things are made new!   

Do you have so many trials and cares in life?  The Bible has all the answers!  1 Peter 1:6
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:       We must look at this life as a preparation for the next, kind of like a baby in the womb of the mother.  Our reality in Christ Jesus is eternal life, not so much this temporal life that we now live!

Feeling soiled by the sins of the past year?

The Lord wants to as said even way back in Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:     The New Testament says:  James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. 

The One that washes away our sins wants us to hear loud and clear!  Behold, I make all things new!  He does not want us carrying paid for sins!  Jesus shed His blood to wash away our sins!  Let’s believe by faith that this is so! 

As Christians, we even have a new name!  Imagine, even our names are changed!  Our name is no longer lost sinner, no longer the condemned one,  or whatever other name that devil has for his people.   

Isaiah 62:2 …… and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

In Revelations Rev 2:17   .  We read this: ….   To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

What is your condition today:  Are you going to be appreciating your NEW NAME in this NEW YEAR?    Are you an overcomer, or have you been overcome?

Have you not yet believed by faith and received your new name?  Have you not repented of your sins and unbelief and become totally new in Christ Jesus?

Recently I was in Kenya and there they sing so wonderfully, Jesus is coming soon, coming to take me home!   Come to Jesus, tomorrow you never know!

Are we ready to meet our Lord?  If not, allow Him to recreate us in His time, so that we can then say: Come Lord Jesus! 

There is coming a day when my Jesus I shall see!   There will be no more sorrow, sadness, dying, death, or heartache!   All will be new forever!   This is what waits eternally for the Redeemed of the Lord!

Have a Blessed New Year!    John R.