“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”
The Ground
Thirty days ago this book began with fallow ground, unplanted, waiting, uncertain whether anything would ever grow there again. It closes here, with the largest promise scripture offers about renewal, spoken not by a farmer or a prophet but by the one who sits upon the throne itself: behold, I make all things new.
Notice the tense: I make, present and ongoing, not I made, a single completed action in the past, and not I will make, a promise deferred entirely to the future. This new-making is described as a present, active reality, the same God who was at work in your waiting, your breaking, and your sowing across these thirty days, still actively making new even now.
This closes the arc this whole book has traced. Waiting was never wasted time. Breaking was never merely destruction. Sowing was never a gamble with no guaranteed return. All of it, waiting, breaking, sowing, has been part of the ongoing work of the one who makes all things new, working in fallow ground precisely because fallow ground is exactly where he does this kind of work.
You began this book uncertain whether your ground would ever produce anything again. You end it here, still in process, perhaps, but held by a promise large enough to cover every unfinished thing this season contained. He is making all things new, including, specifically, the ground you have walked through these thirty days.
Tend the Ground
- Write down the single truth from these thirty days that most reshaped how you see waiting.
- Name one piece of ground you are trusting him to keep making new, beyond this book’s end.
- Tell one person this week something true about fallow seasons you did not know a month ago.
Prayer
Lord, you make all things new, including this ground I have walked through these thirty days. Whatever remains unfinished, I trust it to your ongoing, present work. Amen.
Carry this today
He does not only make things new eventually. He is making all things new now.
He Makes All Things New
Thirty days ago you began on fallow ground, unplanted, waiting, uncertain whether anything would grow here again.
You know now: the waiting was not wasted. The breaking was not merely loss. The sowing was not a gamble.
Whatever remains unfinished in this ground, you do not walk forward as a stranger to it anymore. He is making all things new, including this.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it.
James 5:7