After reading today’s passages, use the guiding content below to help you reflect, respond, and engage with one another.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and called it good. After the fall, creation began to decay and experience futility. In the end, the heavens and earth are made new, and humanity dwells with God in a secure, flourishing garden city.
In prayer and in the comments, reflect on the images from today’s passages that were familiar to you. What images point to the different or “beyond” nature of what’s to come?
There will be no sun just the glory of god. He is bigger than it all.
I think it’s beautiful that he is rebuilding the city for us! Whatever we do, whatever wrong humanity has done, God still wants us in the end – He longs for us to dwell with Him and make our home in His Kingdom!
Everything will be new! God’s light will light the nation, nothing unclean will ever enter, and there is no need for a temple because God will be amongst us. Amen!
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The apostles are his foundation in new Jerusalem, he is our foundation here; if we place our trust and faith in him, he will deliver
Everything will be new. Nothing that is unclean, false or detestable will enter it. It gives me hope, renewed hope. God makes all things new.
I wept when I read the passages in Revelation with an overwhelming sense of gratitude and love for a creator who has it all planned out, from beginning to end. I really don’t need to worry about today; He has a purpose for all of it!
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