Behold, I Make All Things New

Legend tells of a little girl who had an ugly hump on her back. The girl was so deformed that she was either ridiculed or pitied by everyone. When she died, it turned out that the ugly hump concealed angel’s wings. Can it be that all the ugly things in our lives have in them angel's wings? Can it be that even our sin, our ugly sin, can be turned to good; could it conceal angel’s wings? This is the glorious promise of conversion. God is able to make all things work together for good. Even the sinful years, the ugly years, need not be wasted but can result in good. Is this not the most comforting assurance? For many of us our ugly years were numerous, and they cause deep remorse. They may have struck at the prime of our lives and ministries. For so long we have grieved them, feeling that many years of ministry were wasted. But the love of God dawns upon us, and with it comes a most amazing promise and a new hope. What we cannot redeem, God can; and what we cannot erase, God will. –Norman Shawchuck

We tend to think of redemption in a salvation sense—He’s saved us from hell by His blood. That is true, but we cannot forget that His redemptive work does far more; He’s promised, “I will never leave you or forsake you” (Deut. 31:36); He’s promised “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten” (Joel 2;25); He’s promised (mentioned above) to work “all things together for good for those who love God” (Rom. 8:28). Every promise our God has made us is ‘yea and amen’ in the one who said, “Behold, I am making all things new” (Rev. 21:5). Rest in your God today … and always.