Awaiting the New Creation
We all spend time waiting. Perhaps you’re waiting for a long-planned vacation. Maybe you’re waiting for healing after a surgery, or for a relationship to be restored. In Revelation 6:10, the martyrs cried out, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” The saints in this passage had been killed for their faith in Jesus, and they wanted to know how long they would have to wait for justice, for the Lord’s vengeance, and for the completion of God’s kingdom to come. It’s a question that all believers ask in one form or another. When will God’s remaking of creation, which began at Christ’s resurrection, be complete? When will suffering on this earth be over? When will joy become truly everlasting? “Wait just a little longer” is the answer. No calendar date is provided, but the Lord promises that it will happen. Believers will be able to enjoy full life in God’s new creation someday. In the meantime, all of us who are in Christ are held, loved, and kept for the arrival of that big new creation the Lord is working on. In the meantime, we will wait, and as we try to do that in faith, with trust in God and love for one another, knowing that He will help us to serve Him faithfully.
