Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith

December 14
Nothing Old

And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new - Revelation 21:5

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.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon