This is one of my favorite scenes from the movie “The Passion of Christ”.
I don’t know why but today I started thinking about this scene. There is Jesus, in an intimate scene with his mother. He is carrying his cross up to where he will be crucified. Then in the moment where he drops his cross, Mary runs and comes to his rescue…or so she thinks. For in that moment Jesus says that He is the one who came to rescue us.
I make all things new…
A while back I remember during the election season, it seems like the only thing on T.V. was campaign ads. You literally could not watch a single channel without seeing some sort of politician’s ad.
There is one thing that they had in common. They all told us what they were going to do. What they were going to do for us. How they would make our lives easier…if only we would elect them. If they follow through though that is another thing.
Now hear me out. I am not saying that God is a politician at all. But it seemed similar in a way. Jesus came and said “I make all things new.” He didn’t just come and make a bunch of empty statements. He did something about it, He backed up what He said. He was beaten, spit upon, cursed, broken, beat beyond recognition and crucified. He began the work of making us new.
Through His crucifixion and by His blood, we were given a clean slate. The darkness of sin became as white as fresh fallen snow. It became as if we never had sinned in the first place. We were given grace…not deserved…but given. We became new creations.
Though accepting Jesus as saviour, does not make our life easier. He doesn’t promise that at all. He says that “the world will hate you because it hates me.” You may go through some hard times, but Jesus sticks to His promises. So you can rest assure in that He will take care of you.
This is only the first phase of Jesus making all things new. The full process will come to completion when Jesus comes back to take us home to Heaven. For there we will have a new body.
That is where Jesus makes a final promise. There will be no more tears, no more death, no more hurt, no more sin. Sounds better than any political campaign commercial that I’ve heard in a long time.
“I am confident in this very thing, that He who began a good work in me, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ”—Philipians1:6
