No More Screw Ups

Rev 21:4 "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

This is after Satan is thrown into the bottomless pit for 1000 years and then cast into hell. This is after God creates a new heaven and a new earth. This is what it is going to be like. No more tears. (That is not just the name for a baby shampoo…that is going to be reality.) No more death. No more sorrow. No more crying. No more pain.

The new heaven and the new earth where God Himself lives with people, where God the Father and God the Son illuminate the place, will eliminate everything negative that we can imagine, and will be filled with only goodness and grace and life and joy.

As I think about it, if there are no more tears, if there is no more sorrow, if there is no more crying, if there is no more pain then there are not going to be any more screw ups on our part. After all, a lot of the crying and pain and sorrow that we experience on this earth is because of our sin. Because we don't listen. Because we don't obey. Because we want to go our own way…and the consequences are tears, and sorrow and crying and pain. In the new heaven and the new earth, there will only be perfection. Only perfect lives. We humans will not act like humans any longer…that is we will not be imperfect. Every decision we make will be right. Every word we say will be proper. Every thought we have will be pure. No more doubt. No more guilt. No more screw ups.

Beyond that, however, the things that we can't control, no more sickness. No more injuries. No more disabilities. (No need for lawyers like me.) No more death. I know that this is going to be an amazing time. All of the people that I know who are believers who have back problems…gone. All of the people who are there who had cancer…gone. All of the people who have MS, or CP, or spina bifida, or Parkinsons…it is all gone. And death is abolished forever. It is really hard to imagine a place like this. All I know is what I have experienced in my 56 years here on this earth, and because of Adam and Eve's original screw up, we have to deal with these things. But, not any more. Because of what Jesus did we have hope. We have life. We have perfection.

So the people that I prayed for this morning…Joe and Ronnie and Frank and Mike, no more sickness. And the couples that I prayed for this morning…no more strife.

Thank God, no more screw ups.