When All Things Will Be New

When All Things Will Be New
Sunday, February 09, 2020
by Dr. Paul Chappell

“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”

Revelation 21:3–5

Everything that we see around us is old. Since the creation the natural world has existed, and since the fall of man, it has existed in a cursed state, far less than what God originally made. As we look at the beauty of the creation and realize it is no longer as good as God made it, we begin to realize that the display of power we see is only a taste of what is to come. Every child of God has a wonderful home in Heaven in his or her future.

T. DeWitt Talmage said, “Many people suppose that we shall see Heaven the first day we get there. You cannot see London in two weeks. You cannot see Rome in six weeks. You cannot see Venice in a month. You cannot see the great city of the New Jerusalem in a day. No; it will take all eternity to see Heaven, to count the towers, to examine the trophies, to gaze upon the thrones, to see the hierarchies. Ages on ages roll, and yet, Heaven is new. The streets new! The Temple new! The joy new! The song new!” But God’s power of regeneration and making things new is not confined to Heaven. Each morning we come to Him, His mercies are new.

Today's Growth Principle:
We are not bound by the past, for we serve a God who makes all things new.