All things have become new by
Thomas Reed Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. All things have passed away.
Behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians chapter 5
verse 17 Our perceptions will be new.
A divine light will break in upon our minds. The darkness
of error, which obscured the truth from our view, will be
dissipated. Our principles will be new. We
shall act from pure, holy, unselfish motives. Faith working by love
will be the grand moving principle. Self will no longer be the pivot
on which we turn, but Jesus will be our all in all. Our practice
will be new. We shall live no longer according
to the sinful customs of the world or the powerful solicitations
of the flesh, but according to the holy precepts of the everlasting
gospel. we shall delight in the law of
God after the inward man. It will be our food and drink
to do the will of our Father. Our plans will be new. We shall
dedicate ourselves and all we have and are to the service of
that divine Savior who loved us and gave himself for us. We shall not be daily occupied
in forming plans for worldly pleasure or projecting schemes
for the acquisition of worldly profit. but in devising means
for carrying on the cause of truth and for spreading the knowledge
of a crucified Redeemer throughout the earth. Our prospects will
be new. The darkness being passed and
the true light now shining, we shall see the distant radiance
of the heavenly Zion and behold with a telescopic eye of faith
the land which is very far off. Our privileges will be new. God
will be our reconciled Father. Jesus will be our Saviour and
Friend. The Holy Spirit will be our Sanctifier
and Comforter. And Heaven will be our Eternal
Home. Our portion will be new. All
those exceeding great and precious promises will be ours. We shall
be heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. We shall be the
citizens of the new Jerusalem and inherit that kingdom that
is incorruptible and undefiled, prepared for all the new creatures
in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. To sum up all this
blessedness, we shall experience in this world a progression in
holiness and in the world to come a perpetuity of bliss. you