New Heavens and a New Earth

Isaiah 65:17

” See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.”

God has always been in the business of creating. He makes old things new. This act of creation isn’t limited to us. It includes physical creation as well. God not only makes us new when we come to Christ, He has also promised to make a new heaven and a new earth as well. What a wonderful promise!

When God begins to create a new thing, it’s spectacular. So spectacular that it changes our memory and perception. God promises that His new work, His new creation will be so marvelous and wonderful that we won’t even remember the way things used to be.

Sin influenced everything when it came into the world. Of course, it change our natures and negatively impacted our spiritual state, but sin also affected the physical world. There was sickness and disease. Things didn’t work the way God intended them to work. Death and destruction were introduced into the world. Just as our spirits were crying out to God for deliverance, the Bible tells us that creation has been calling out as well. The Bible says that creation groans as if in childbirth. Creation is waiting for deliverance as well!

The promise that all things, even physical creation, will be made new gives us hope for what God has planned in the future. When we struggle with sin, negativity, and destruction around us in our physical circumstances, we can cling to the promise that when God makes things new, we won’t even remember the sorrow and pain we used to have.

Father, thank you that you make all things new, even the heavens and the earth. Thank you that when you begin your creative work, you don’t stop until it is exactly as you planned it. Thank you that your creative act isn’t limited to the spiritual, but you include the physical things as well. Help me to remember that this world is temporary. One day, I will see the new heavens and the new earth that you have in mind, and I won’t even remember the things that cause me pain and heartache now. Help me to cling to this hope when my circumstances look bleak. In Jesus’ name, Amen.