Being Made New
Text excerpts taken from “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life”
by Henri J.M. Nouwen
© 2015 by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust.
Published by HarperOne.

“Fear and worry can affect our interpretation of the events we see or hear about. I do believe that we are living in the end of times, but I take that to mean that we are living under God’s promise that “all things are being made new.” For me, living in the end of times does not mean that creation will soon come to an end, but it does mean that all the signs of the end that Jesus mentions are already with us: wars and revolutions, conflicts between nations, earthquakes, plagues, famines, and persecutions (see Luke 21:9-12). Jesus describes the events of our world as announcements that this world is not our final dwelling place and that the “Son of Man” will come to bring us our full freedom.”