Scripture is clear on the fact that the fulfillment of God’s saving mission to the world will be manifest in the establishment of the New Creation. In that New Creation, heaven and earth are joined together (as binary and complementary parts) and the Creator and the created can have communion, fellowship together. Unlike the sad realities of the original creation (because of human rebellion), in the New Creation, we will share in the life of God.
In reflecting on this concept, something came to mind that is quite overwhelming. When we begin to compare and contrast the original creation with the New Creation (which began in the bodily resurrection of Jesus), we’re able to see things from a wonderfully new perspective, specifically, the reality that God choses to use humanity as participatory agents for calling into existence the New Creation.
Wow! In the original creation, humanity was the object creation. Jesus, as the Word, and the Spirit, as the deliverer of that Word, were the means by which the creation was manifest. This is still the cast for the New Creation, however, because Christ lives in his Church through the Holy Spirit, the human family of God partakes in the wonderful and amazing privilege of participating in the act of creating. We get to experience and witness the birth of others into the New Creation, into the Kingdom of God.
Perhaps this is why the first time it only took seven days, and now, we’re going on 2000+ years for the fulfillment of the New Creation.
What a gracious God.
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