Jesus— the New Creation.

C.S. Lewis once said, in Jesus God “was creating man anew: was beginning, at this divine and human point, the New Creation of all things….  The miraculous conception is one more witness that here is Nature’s Lord.  He is doing now, small and close, what He does in a different fashion for every woman who conceives.”

Most of us lovvvve new things, especially this time of year— new cars, new clothes, new homes, new hair, new anything, right?  We like shiny new things on Jesus’ B-Day, new outlooks on life, new beginnings, new restaurants, new relationships.  We like the newness of Spring, the freshness of the morning.  Now, consider the ultimate purpose of God’s Grand Miracle was to make all things new, including you and I.  And this is the greatest gift of all— if we have the eyes to see it.  Jesus came for us and became one of us, so that we might become like Him.  As Lewis wrote, “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God,” not one of Him but one with Him.

Jesus became human, perfect humanity, to show us what we could become in Him.  Not only is He the ultimate Example, the Master in whose footsteps we are to follow in faith, but He became a man in order to recreate and renew a fallen Creation, to restore and redeem every soul gone astray.  He came in humility, veiling His glory and the prerogatives of unlimited power.  One Day He will come again, in power and glory unveiled, to make all things new and set the world to rights!

Jesus, Lord of All Creation and Creator of All that Is, came as John said to make “all things new” {NAU}, not all new things.  The life we now have with the people we now love in the body we now inhabit will be ours again, only this time perfected beyond all imagining, every ounce of imperfection removed.  We will dwell in a glorified Universe, as God originally intended, ruling and reigning with the Righteous King, Jesus Christ, the stain of our sin and shame gone for good.  And never to return.  What joy, what glory, what utter relief in the holiness which will permeate our hearts, in the purity, the power, the presence of God unrestrained, flowing like a river over us, around us, within us, between us.

This Advent Season, this B-Day of the Great King {and every day we worship Him}, let it start within us, one by one by one as we sing words like…

Joy to the world!  The Lord is come.

Let Earth receive her King.

Let every heart prepare Him room,

And Heaven and Nature sing….

…No more let sins and sorrows grow,

Nor thorns infest the ground.

He comes to make His blessings flow

Far as the curse is found….

As Martin Luther wrote in From Heaven Above,

Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child,

Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled,

Within my heart, that it may be

A quiet chamber kept for Thee.

Son of the Father, now in flesh appearing!  O come, let us adore You, Christ the Lord.  “Therefore, is anyone is in Christ, he is a New Creation” {2 Cor. 5:17}.  Amen and amen.

HJC	Ric Webb  |  Shepherd Heart’s Journey Community 9621 Tall Timber Blvd. |  Little Rock, AR 72204 t +1.501.455.0296
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