Fresh Starts
“Behold, I am making all things new.” Revelation 21:5
The Bible doesn’t exactly have a category for the proverbial fresh start. It does, however, present us with something far more wondrous: redemption. God has not given us a fresh start in Christ. He has finished everything for us. Just as he will make all things new in the new creation, he has made us new creations now. We don’t get another shot at life. Jesus lived life for us, and died for our sinful lives, to make us right with God and give us something way better than a fresh start: a secured finish.
Now we run the race which is already won in Christ. Because of this, our walk ought always to be characterized by redemptiveness. Were we to give one another clean slates every day, perhaps we would feel better, but change would never come and the cycle would never stop. We would keep sinning against each other and needing to start all over again all the time. But because of Jesus, we can begin to view one another eschatologically. For we, as many as trust in Christ, are already clothed with his royal vestments and already indwelt by his Spirit. And even now his finished work has made us new.