Just as God created the heaven and earth by the words from His mouth, so He will create a new heaven and earth. For those of us who know God as our Savior have the hope of the new which is to come. We have no need to sorrow as those who have no hope, but we live with the eternal perspective that this world is not all there is to see. We see the next.
We will finally see Jesus, the One who made Himself a substitute for our sins reversing the curse of death with the promise that one day we could stand before Him. He is our Advocate, the one who goes before God on our behalf. He is our Propitiation, the one who satisfied God's wrath against sin by dying on a cross and rising from the dead.
Beware of the slimy temptation to think that this world is all you have to live for. When the thoughts about heaven become too far-off that you forget and begin to live like it doesn't exist. Watch out for that day and the times when those thoughts appear! Look to Jesus. Look to His word and see the truth, the end that surely comes.
He is coming again.
He will wipe the tears from our eyes.
He will take away pain, death, sorrow, fear.
He will reverse the curse of sin and death completely.
He will make all things new.
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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