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This week’s readings seem to have a common thread running through them: the theme of renewal, of remaking, of reversal of circumstances, of transformation.
Psalm 30 is a song of praise in response to reversal of fortune: “you turned my wailing into dancing,” says the Psalmist.
In Acts 9 we see Saul, a persecutor of Christians who was “breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples,” have an encounter with the risen Jesus, and by the end of the chapter, he is “preaching in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.”
In John 21 Jesus appears again to the disciples after his resurrection. He eats with them and we get another glimpse at the resurrection body, the renewed and remade body of Jesus, which is a glimpse into our future renewed and remade resurrection bodies.
In Revelation we see angels and all creatures gathered in heaven’s throne-room worshipping Jesus, the Lamb that was slain but lives again. It’s a vision of the way things are and of things to come: of the risen Lamb and of a creation renewed and transformed to praise and glorify God.
This is the work God is doing in the world through Jesus. At the end of Revelation, Jesus says, “I am making everything new!” Mourning is turned to dancing, sinners are remade into saints, dying bodies are remade into eternal bodies, anxious creatures are transformed into worshipping and celebrating creatures.
This is the big picture of salvation: Jesus is renewing and remaking all of creation!
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