Glorious, Joyful Eternity!

5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”  — Revelation 21:5 NIV

 ​In the beginning, God created everything exactly as it should be.

 

​31  God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. — Genesis 1:31 NIV

 Then sin came into the world and the pefect creation and creatures begin to grow old and decay.  ​  It wasn’t what God wanted, but there is a price to be paid when we sin.  Since then, humans have been born in sin into a sinful world . The evil and the decay continue and get worse every day.  God had a plan in place to redeem the world, so He sent His son to die on a cross. But, sin was and still is, in the world. So things continue to grow old and will continue to do so until Jesus comes back again.  Even nature groans to be renewed while we wait for His return.  One day that will happen and we will see a new heaven and a new earth.  Our salvation will be complete and we will have new, glorified bodies that will last forever. No matter what the day or the date is, one day, it will happen and we will have had our last Happy New Year.  That day when everything is made new could be called “Glorious, Joyful Eternity”  and that is my hope and my prayer.  My new year’s resolution is to practice spending more time with Jesus now because I believe it is possible to have a little bit of heaven here on earth.  

I believe that is what Jesus meant when He taught us to pray “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

 Happy New You! Happy New Year!

Post 01-01-2016

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