God came into our world as a human.  He entered into a world that was under the reign of sin, death and Satan. He continually confronted this old order, showing the power of the new. Then, in his dying and rising, Jesus ended the old order and began the new. The old realm of sin reigning in death died in the death of Jesus. In the rising of Jesus, the new order was born. The new man rises as the new ruler in God’s new order.

Under the old domain of darkness, we saw all things with darkened minds in a natural human way, including God.  Now, with the eyes of our hearts enlightened by the Spirit, we see all things through the lens of Jesus.  Yes, we now find ourselves with entirely new ways of seeing God, ourselves, and all things in a new order with new ways of knowing. 

This new way of knowing is to be ever new as the living Lord encounters us repeatedly in the Spirit.  We do not take the new way of knowing God and make it our own possession to look at when we choose. To work on as we please.  In living encounters, the new way of knowing is new to us every new day so that it is ever fresh in the Spirit. And from our hearts we say Amen as we hear God saying, “See, I am making all things new.” (Revelation 21:5).