All Things New

Come broken and weary. Come battered and bruised
My Jesus makes all things new, all things new

Come lost and abandoned. Come blown by the wind
He'll bring you back home again, home again.

Rise up, oh you sleeper, awake, the light of the dawn is upon you.
Rise up, oh you sleeper, awake, he makes all things new. all things new

Come frozen with shame. Come burning with guilt.
My Jesus he loves you still, he loves you still.

The world was good. The world is fallen. The world will be redeemed.

So hold onto the promise. The stories are true that Jesus makes all things new.
All things new.

~Andrew Peterson, Ben Shive, Andy Gullahorn

I love this song. i first heard it Christmas of 2008, and the "My Jesus makes all things new" just kept ringing in my heart until i could buy the song. I love the hope in this song - and i cling to the truth that Jesus does somehow, miraculously make all things new. I cling to that promise for the ladies at Sari Bari and the girls that i interacted with through IJM. but that wasn't enough.

One day in January i was hiking in Nepal - broken and bruised...with a heavy heart, trying to "process" the year i'd just spent in south asia, feeling the weight that i carry as i choose to allow God's heart for justice and the oppressed to enter my own, trying to wrap my mind around what it meant for that season to be over, and what it would mean to move back to the US. I sat...looking at the most amazing mountain view, and wept as i understood that the promise of this song is for me too....and the dawn is upon me.

amazing. he makes all things new. i don't understand it. i don't know how, or what that means practically - but the stories are true - Jesus makes all things new...and that is enough for today.