“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
