making all things new...

Another moment from my Easter journey through The Passion...

Treading along... the scene comes where Mary... Jesus's mother... wavers in her desire to be near Him to the end...

Then it happens...

He falls...

Her mind leaps to a memory of Jesus as a small child... He fell... she dropped everything to run and comfort Him... I'm here... I'm here...

Just like a mother does... she ran without thinking to the middle of the street... caresses His bloodied... swollen... face in her hands... I'm here... I'm here...

Then He says it... (now I know this is just the movie... it's not in Scripture just this way... but for me I'm stunned...)

See Mother... I make all things new...

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And I wonder because this is my word for the year... new...

and this is my verse that goes with it...

And he who was seated on the throne said,

"Behold, I am making all things new."

Revelation 21:5 ESV

The incongruency strikes me...

A man headed to His death...

beaten... bloodied... unable to hold Himself up...

and He says... Look Mom... I'm making all things new...!

I wonder at this idea... of death... leading to new...

What does it mean for those of us who follow Him...?

The whole of what's important... wrapped up in the spiritual... the unseen... not the things of this world...

It's all about what's to come... but somehow inextricably linked to how we live life now...

"... Truly, truly, I say to you,

unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,

it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. ..."

---Jesus

John 12:24 ESV

A moment from my Easter walk... that continues to make me wonder about... making all things new...

Hmmm...