In the past two blogs, I have spoken about how God's eternal purpose of bring glory to himself, gives us eternal hope. We looked at this eternal hope by looking at Revelation 21:1-7. So far, going through this
passage, we have seen two parts of God's three-fold purpose:
1) to create a companion for His Son (We are that companion that God is making suitable for His Son)
2) to create a place for Him to dwell and rest (That place is our eternal abode with Him)
Now we we see his third purpose, to share His trinitarian life with you and I. You could call this purpose, God's desire to have a people (or family).
He will
wipe away from them every tear from their eyes.
God, is
comforting his people in this passage. We have many tears because of the effects of
sin and how our sins have damaged our relationships: with one another and
with God. God will make these relationships right, but in doing so,
there will be many tears shed... They must be shed. So here God
comforts us, as a mother comforts her weeping child.
Death
will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor
pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
A complete
restoration and reversal of the curse from Gen 3. No more will our
relationships with one another be cut off due to death, no more pain
in our hearts from the loss of a relationship, either through death
or through our own stubbornness. This old order of
things has passed away. Our relationships with one another will
grow for all eternity as we share the in the relationship of Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
He who sits on the
throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
This is a work he has
already started in you and me. Paul writes, “if anyone be in
Christ he is a new creation, the old things have passed away and
behold all things are becoming new”. This is the concept that
theologians call “here, but not yet”. "He who has begun a good
work in you, will take it to completion."
Here is the completeness of the work of God. We are new, our
relationships are new, and one day this whole universe will be made
new.
He said, “Write,
for these words of God are faithful and true.”
God’s words are
faithful and true, stay near them, listen to them, heed them, wrap
them around your heart and mind, encourage one another with these
words.
He said
to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and
the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of
the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I
will be his God, and he will be my son. He
who overcomes is the one who believes in Jesus Christ. For How can
we enter this everlasting life given to us by the trinity, if we don’t
even believe that such a life exists? It is only in Christ that we
see such a life.
The Scriptures tell us that a Father’s crown of
glory is his children. Our heavenly Father’s glory is you and me.
This relationship, which we get a preview of when we see the relationship between a parent
and a child, will come to it’s fullness when God expels sin,
presents us as a companion
for His son, dwells with us, and we inherit what he has promised for his children. That is it... Forever we will live with God, sharing
in his divine love, drinking from the water of life. The symbolic
metaphor for the trinitarian life. That everlasting life available
through Christ. The catch is... you must be thirsty. Are you
thirsty for life as it should be, relationships as they should be?
Come and drink. It starts now... “here, but not in it’s
fullness”... Eternity
begins today, relationships are restored today, marriages become
fulfilling today... but they will be brought to their fullness on that
day... when the dead are raised and heaven and earth merge.
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