This verse is exciting, because God, who created even the concept of novelty that we enjoy, is making everything new. The word used is kainos, which can mean either recently made, fresh, unused, unworn, or it can mean unprecedented, novel, uncommon, or even unheard of. In this verse we see that God does not throw out broken things, he recreates what was broken, he fixes it up better than it was.
When sin entered the world, God didn’t scrap the project and start over, he mounted the most costly rescue and repair mission that reality will ever witness. As Christ added humanity to his divinity and joined us on the same earth that he spoke into existence, God demonstrated what love was.
While it’s true that God is all powerful, cosmic, unfathomable, and even terrifyingly awe-inspiring, God is also profoundly loving, and surprisingly sentimental. He collects our tears in bottles, he mourns with us, sings over us, he understands our loss, and more than a distant admirer, he cares enough to act. Whatever God’s continued unfolding of creation will be, we can be sure that it will include restoration and not a replacement. Whatever is broken will be ferociously redeemed.
Reflect today on God who makes all things new. What has been broken? Where can you ask God to make something new?
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