Lifted Veil

I showed this to my girls.  Melanie said, “Is that what the new world is going to be like? With everybody happy everywhere?” Encouraging insight.

Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

I find these videos compelling and disturbing on a number of levels.  To name a few:

1.  Reminds me of the brokenness all around me I almost never see but am called to bring the healing of Jesus to.
2.  Helps me enter into a longing for the return of Jesus and the redemption and restoration he brings in my resurrection and that of His world (Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 15).
3. I hear the sentiments of “go and do likewise” echoed throughout (Luke 10:37).
4. Makes me thankful for the police, for God’s servant appointed to do me good (Romans 13:4), and a country where they are a positive force.
5.  Helps me see the ugliness of sin and makes me appreciative to Jesus for the sin he had to endure- afflicted upon him in his life and what he bore upon himself on the cross.
6. I’m reminded of the call to suffer. That as part of His body - the church - I am still filling up “what is lacking in Christ’s sufferings” (Colossians 1:24).
7.  Helps me rejoice at Jesus, the ultimate minister of God for our good, the perfect and final harbinger of justice.