Daily Discipleship - Day 319: Behold, I Am Making All Things New

May 3, 2026

Daily Discipleship • Day 319 • Monday, March 15, 2027

Behold, I Am Making All Things New

Revelation 21:5

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Scripture

Revelation 21:5 (Greek NT / ESV) Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῷ θρόνῳ· Ἰδοὺ καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα. καὶ λέγει· Γράψον, ὅτι οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι πιστοὶ καὶ ἀληθινοί εἰσίν And he who was seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I am making all things new.' Also he said, 'Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'

Author & Audience

C. S. Lewis — author of The Great Divorce and The Last Battle, whose imagination of the renewed creation as 'further up and further in' captures the newness Revelation 21 declares.

Word Study

καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα

kaina poiŏ panta · Greek NT

“I am making all things new”

kainos means new in quality, not neos (new in time). God is not discarding creation and replacing it but renewing and transforming it to its intended glory. The present tense (poiŏ) signals an ongoing process; the 'all things' is comprehensive. Nothing is left outside the scope of renewal.

Reflection

From the writers we read together

C. S. Lewis

Author of The Great Divorce and The Last Battle; Oxford, 1898–1963

“All the old Narnia had passed away, and the new Narnia had begun.” — The Last Battle, chapter 16

The God who speaks from the throne does not announce destruction—He announces transformation. 'I am making all things new.' The old order, marked by death and mourning and crying and pain (v.4), is passing away, and the new is coming. This is not abandonment of creation but its glorification.

Lewis spent his writing life pointing readers toward this newness—the real country that this world is a shadow of. In The Last Battle, the characters discover that the old world was 'only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia.' The brokenness around you today is not the final word. Renewal is in process. Hold your griefs lightly.

Continue your study: Discipleship School — Explore the new creation and God's renewal of all things in our Discipleship School curriculum.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, King of the Universe, God of the throne, You are making all things new—including me. Let the renewal You have begun in me continue today, and anchor my hope in the new creation to come. Amen.

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