Saturdays Are For Shalom
I want to start a new routine here on “Make All Things New” of posting each Saturday (Lord willing) on the topic of shalom (peace; universal flourishing). The plan is, starting today, to post a link, article, quote, idea, pictures, something that points us to the way things ought to be (and one day will be!).
This week, we have two blog posts on heaven and the new earth.
Randy Alcorn shares some excellent thoughts on the new earth. (HT Seeking Him)
Here’s an excerpt I particularly enjoyed:
Ironically, sometimes people who are the most determined to avoid the sacrilege of putting things before God miss a thousand daily opportunities to thank him, praise him, and draw near to him because they imagine they shouldn’t enjoy the very things that God has made to help us know him and love him.
Russell D. Moore briefly explains the difference between going to heaven and going to the new earth in his post “When We All Get To Heaven?”
I really appreciate the wording in this excerpt:
For believers, the intermediate state is blessedness, to be sure. But in heaven there is yet eschatology. The ultimate purpose of God is not just the ongoing life of believers but that his kingdom would come, his will would be done “on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). That awaits the end of all ends, the return of Jesus and the final overthrow of death.
