All Things New

"Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth. Shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rives in the desert." Isaiah 43: 18, 19
"Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5

"After a falling, not a recovery, but a new creation." C.S. Lewis

What is this paradox of God that He is never-changing and yet never old-hat? Can we truly confine Him to any parameter, aside from the ones that he gives us, i.e., He is holy, just, love, good, wise, etc.? Are even those "parameters" in the sens of limitations, or are they constellations by which we navigate an eternal sea? Are his "bindings" really bindings, or are they the signs of order? Is not chaos the worst kind of tyranny? God is bound to nothing except His own nature, something that will take eternity to fathom (which is why there is a heaven).
We do not exactly know what God "did" before the Creation (other than live in eternal intimate communion as the Trinity), but we can rightly assume that the Creation was a new thing. Redemption is a new thing, too. When Christ returns, and this chapter of eternity closes, what will be the next chapter?The Scriptures are silent except in this: whatever it is, you can bet that it will be a new thing.

"What lies beyond the edge of this story?
What lies beyond the last page of Revelation?
Is it not true that beyond the lands of Eternity
Are but more lands to explore...?"
-Jon Vowell