Hi, I'm Arthur Jackson, and I'm happy to be able to share today's Our Daily Bread

Devotion with you that I wrote. I titled it, Imagine This. During the course of a popular

home renovation television program, viewers often hear the host say,

imagine this. Then she unveils what could be when old things are restored and drab walls

and floors are painted or stained. In one episode after the renovation, the homeowner was so

overjoyed that along with other expressions

of elation, the words, this is beautiful, gushed from her lips three times.

One of the stunning imagined this passages in the Bible is Isaiah 65, 17 to 25.

What a dazzling recreation scene.

The future renovation of heaven and earth is in view, and it's not merely cosmetic.

It's deep and real, life-altering and life-preserving.

Verse 21 reads, they will build houses and dwell in them.

They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Verse 25 says violence will be a thing of the past.

They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain.

While the reversals envisioned in Isaiah 65 will be realized in the future,

the God who will orchestrate universal restoration is in the business of the life change now.

The apostle Paul assures us in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come,

the old has gone, the new is here.

In need of restoration, has your life been broken by doubt, disobedience, and pain?

Life changed through Jesus is real and beautiful and available to those who ask and

belief.

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