God’s New Thing

 

 

 

“God is doing a new thing

In His church today,”

The number of times I have heard this

I cannot actually say.

 

Neither can I tell you

How long this new thing lasts,

But as soon as another comes along

The other new thing is passed.

 

Over several periods of time

We’ve had more than one new thing

Such that it is even reflected

In the very choruses we sing.

 

“These are the days of Elijah”

Was the title of one of these songs

And it still puzzles me even now

How Elijah actually belonged.

 

What really would be new

That God would do these days?

I desperately need an answer

If God has changed His ways.

 

It is actually definitely true

That God makes all things new

But that this pertains to the believer

Is my considered view.

 

 

The believer is a new creation,

After all, he is born-again

And the fact that old things are passed,

He will never be the same.

 

From death to eternal life

From sin’s darkness to the light,

From no people to be God’s people

Once blind but now having sight.

 

The result of Christ’s coming

Comprises this new thing of God,

Ever since the advent of Pentecost

The Gospel is spread abroad.

 

This is the blessed millennium

That was long ago prophesied:

The preaching of the glorious Gospel

Of the Christ that was crucified.

 

Some view a millennium to come

As in an exact thousand-year reign,

I too once took that position

But I was compelled to refrain.

 

We are in the millennium

Ever since the day of Pentecost

And the whosoever is being invited

To come by way of the cross.

 

The new thing that God is doing

Was prophesied in the Old Testament

And in the words of John, the Baptist,

Calling all people to repent.

 

No special treatment for the Jew

And surely none for the Greek,

So, be like those wise men of old

And Jesus, the Saviour seek.

 

All that seek him will find him

And they will be made anew,

This is the new thing God is doing,

I thought it was time you knew.

 

Stewart Russell © April 28, 2021