The
New Jerusalem
It is very hard to imagine a world with no
suffering, pain, sorrow or trials. The
older we get, it becomes even more difficult to get a picture of what that
might look like. But, as the body ages and begins to deteriorate in ways we
never dreamed, the idea of a new body is appealing.
Revelation 21:1 (NIV)
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
The
words, “and there was no longer any sea,”
caught my attention. I don’t believe
I ever read those words before now.
Looking into it a little bit I found that the sea was viewed as
dangerous and changeable. It was also
the source of the beast. The fact that
even the sea will be no more means everything that causes me stress, or worry
or anxiety, will be gone. Only
perfection will inhabit the New Earth.
Only new and perfect bodies will live on the New Earth.
When we
become believers now, God does a new thing in us, but we are still not perfect
and neither is our life. We have broken
bodies and bruised emotions. Our world
has not changed, only our outlook and our future have changed. God has instilled in us a new hope, and we
have access to a new joy—all of which come from a relationship with Jesus.
This
relationship with Jesus guarantees we will be inhabitants of The New Jerusalem. All Saint’s Day is a day which celebrates the
lives of these citizens of a perfect world.
In that perfect world we will be reunited.
Read Revelation 21:1-5 here
Listen to Revelation 21:1-5 here
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