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Nothing Old
Glory be to His name! All things need making new, for they are sadly battered and worn by sin. It is time that the old vesture was rolled up and laid aside, and that creation put on her Sunday suit. But no one else can make all things new except the Lord who made them at the first; for it needs as much power to make out of evil as to make out of nothing. Our Lord Jesus has undertaken the task, and He is fully competent for the performance of it. Already he has commenced His labor, and for centuries He has persevered in making new the hearts of men and the order of society. By and by He will make new the whole constitution of human government, and human nature shall be changed by His grace; and there shall come a day when the body shall be made new and raised like unto His glorious body.
What a joy to belong to a kingdom in which everything is being made new by the power of its King! We are not dying out: we are hastening on to a more glorious life. Despite the opposition of the powers of evil, our glorious Lord Jesus is accomplishing His purpose and making us, and all things about us, “new” and as full of beauty as when they first came from the hand of the Lord.
The question that came to my mind when I read, “But no one else can make all things new except the Lord who made them at the first; for it needs as much power to make out of evil as to make out of nothing” was if it took God seven days to make everything in the first place why does it take so long to make a new me? Am I getting in the way? Or is God just not finished with me yet. I am reminded good relationships take time. After 25 years I love my husband more and differently than I did when we got married. I hope it can be said we have changed each other for the better. God has had a big hang in that.
Another random thought was how God has changed and made me new through the years. It was through prayer.
“The greatest difference between Jesus Christ and moral and ethical teachers, who have been deified by men, is that these moralists came to make bad men good; Jesus came to make dead men live.” Ravi Zacharias
Life in Christ. A new Creation. Worlds without end. Heaven. And we will be there to witness it all. In the Beginning Jesus was with God and He was God, the Word. In the New Beginning, by God’s grace, Jesus will allow us to be with Him!