Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in YouTube images and lyrics from Chris McClarney singing … Beauty For Ashes … poignantly singing of how our faith and trust in Christ gives us the ultimate “do-over … make-over” in Heaven.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 25:9 [NLT] … 5 And the One sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” …
… All things become new in Heaven, including you and me.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Revelation 21:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… In Heaven, God makes all things new !!!
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Reference Passage : … Isaiah 61:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… What the Messiah will do to make us new when He comes again from glory, giving us a crown of glory for the brokenness and ashes of this life (see v. 3).
Reference Passage : … 1 Corinthians 15:35-55 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… In heaven our decaying - or decayed - human bodies will be made over into Christlike bodies.
Reference Passage : … 2 Corinthians 5:17 [NLT] … 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
… As Christians, we’re already brand new; but we await the full package in heaven.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 1:6 [NLT] … 6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
… One day, in Heaven, we will realize the completion of what Christ, in all Christians, has - or had - begun when we received Him as Lord and Savior.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, James Banks, uses a personal remembrance, a word picture, to illustrate how we, who are in Christ, will get a wondrous “make-over” in heaven. The ODB author writes … Junkyards intrigue me. I enjoy working on cars, so I frequently make trips to the one near our home. It’s a lonely place, where the wind whispers through discarded hulks that were once someone’s prized possession. Some were wrecked, some wore out, and others simply outlived their usefulness. As I walk between the rows, a car will sometimes catch my eye, and I’ll find myself wondering about the adventures it had during its “lifetime.” Like a portal to the past, each has a story to tell—of human hankering after the latest model and the inescapable passage of time.
But I take particular pleasure in finding new life for an old part. Whenever I can take something discarded and give it new life in a restored vehicle, it feels like a small victory against time and decline.
When my father was dying, and living in a nursing home, he suffered from constant pain, difficulty with breathing, swallowing problems, and many other maladies. And every time I visited him in his last years, he would ask me to read the passage in 1 Cor. 15:35-55 where God’s word describes what our newly “made-over” bodies will be like in heaven.
My dad came to Christ as Lord and Savior in his 70s; but suffering severely in his 80s, he believed in, and now has realized in Heaven, the ultimate “do-over” Christ has arranged for all who have truly have received His saving grace.
So, if you, like me, have some physical or emotional “junkyard” brokenness [in your past or present], … take heart; … because God’s promise in his word, is the promise sung by Chris McClarney in the linked song … that in heaven God’s ultimate “make-over” will be completed and we will be made COMPLETELY new in Christ.
Do, I sense a hopeful and confirming, HALLELUJAH?!!!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for what You completed on the cross to allow me to become new in You.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, carry and share the hope we have to become new creatures in Christ. … Amen
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