Revealed Devotional Series // Creator // Week 3, New Creations
One of God’s most beautiful qualities is that he doesn’t change. He remains; he is faithful. If he was once the Creator, then he will always be Creator. Even when his creation messes up and listens to another voice, giving God’s rightful authority to another created thing, God creates still again.
When Adam and Eve believed the lie of the serpent in the garden and partook of the forbidden fruit, all of creation became subject to the fall. Everything got turned upside down, inside out from the original intentions of our Creator. God’s faithfulness doesn’t allow him to quit though. He created another provision to buy us back from the lie, or death to be more precise. More accurately, this provision existed before the fall—before we were created—before the foundations of the earth. (John 1, Colossians 1, Revelation 13) This provision is Jesus. Beautiful Jesus! The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
When it was time, God fashioned Jesus in Mary’s womb, fearfully and wonderfully knitting him together. Jesus lived and breathed as a man, becoming the perfect, willing sacrifice to fulfill the law once and for all. The author of Hebrews fittingly calls Jesus’ sacrifice a new and living way. (Hebrews 10:20) The creating carries on through Jesus’ life. He gives his life to us. As we take his life, we become new creations. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 1 Peter 5:17 Why? So that we, God’s creation, could be reconciled back to him as sons and daughters—everything flipped back and right side up—as he always intended.
Let me recap in case you got lost with all that creating. God made a provision for his creation before he created them. God created the heavens, the earth, and people. God knitted Jesus (provision) together in human form. Through that provision, he makes new creations. So, back to where I started, God has always been and will always be Creator. He doesn’t give up on his creation.
This week, as you read the following daily scriptures, consider God’s faithfulness as Creator. Not only his ability to create, but his nature to keep us, sustain us, and not give up on us.
Day One
I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations….to be God to you and to your offspring after you. Genesis 17:7
For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end. Isaiah 9:6-7
Day Two
Isaiah 52 – For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth, like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Day Three
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should no perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
Day Four
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounds all the more. so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:18-21
In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. 2 Corinthians 5:19
Day Five
For we know that the whole creation had been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. and not only the creation, but we ourselves who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. Romans 8:22-23
But if Christ dwells in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. if the Spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you , he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:10-11
Day Six
Therefore…since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through…his flesh…let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16
Day Seven
Rest in knowing God has made you a new creation.
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©Adrienne Scott, 2018
Acknowledgments: Engaging God’s World – Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
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