February 18, 2026
Things Are Going To Change
Revelation 21:1-2,5 – “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. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband… He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!'”
The renovation crew tears out the rotted floorboards, replaces crumbling drywall, updates ancient wiring. After weeks of work, the house looks refreshed—better than before, but still recognizably the same structure. Then you visit a construction site where the old building has been completely demolished. Workers are pouring a new foundation, raising new walls, creating something entirely different. This isn’t renovation. This is recreation.
Five words from the throne of God capture this distinction: “I am making everything new!” This isn’t restoration or repair—it’s divine recreation on a scale parallel to the original creation itself. Since those first six days when God spoke the universe into existence, He has been sustaining, redeeming, and restoring His creation. But in Revelation, we glimpse something unprecedented since Genesis—God creating again.
This promise addresses our deepest longing. We live where beauty fades, relationships fracture, bodies deteriorate, and systems corrupt. We patch and repair, medicate and manage, but we cannot reverse the fundamental brokenness that permeates creation. Only the Creator Himself can do that.
The scale staggers imagination. John sees not just individual improvements but “a new heaven and a new earth.” No more tears, death, mourning, crying, or pain (Revelation 21:4). No more curse (Revelation 22:3). Creation itself “liberated from its bondage to decay” (Romans 8:21).
Yet this isn’t erasure but transformation. Just as Christ’s resurrection body maintained continuity while being gloriously transformed, the new creation will retain recognizable elements of the old while being fundamentally renewed—familiar yet perfect, recognizable yet glorified. The best of what we’ve known, freed from everything that corrupts it.
Today’s Prayer: God, when I grow weary of this broken world, remind me You’re not finished yet. Amen.
Reflection Question: How does knowing God will make everything new change how you view the broken aspects of our current world?