- 83. A New Thing
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
The Lord promises a new thing: a Messiah, the Savior, shall come into the world out of heaven to save sinners and earn eternal life for all believers in Him. He will make a way in the emptiness of the soul, and make rivers of waters for the dry desert of the soul. This promise was fulfilled in Jesus. And the entire world and we know it. The work of the promised Messiah was not done in a corner, even though the land of Judea seemed like a remote corner of the Roman Empire. It didn’t take long for the known world to know what Jesus had done.
It was a new thing. No human being on earth could have thought it up; no one could even imagine what great things God, the Lord, .did by becoming a man. He took our sins upon Him and died the penalty for them so that God could forgive sins, grant eternal life, and receive us into His Kingdom today and forever. It is also a new thing, in that it makes each believer new; he or she is given a new life, the very life of God; we now walk in newness of life. It is also new because we were set free from the old way of living in the chains of sin and death. The old is gone, the new has come. We are a New Creation in Christ.
In Revelation 21, at the end of the Bible and the End of the World, the Lord God declares, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He has made us new with new spiritual bodies in the resurrection, and He has brought in the new heaven and the new earth for the newly resurrected bodies to live in. How exciting is something new! Everyone loves a new car or a new house or a new gadget. The only problem is that whatever it is it wears out and gets old very quickly, and then we desire another new thing. However, once God has made us new, and when He gives us new things in a new creation, it is renewed constantly. It never wears out; it never gets old. And there will be new things every day for eternity. For now, in this present age, the inner man is being renewed day by day. Jesus will do a new thing.