there will be no end to the new creation

It is true that faith and hope do at present seem to us to be looking forward to the new age,

so that we might assume that when that new age comes, they will be redundant. But Paul sees much deeper than that. Faith is the settled, wavering trust in the one true God whom we have come to know in Jesus Christ. When we see him face-to-face we shall not abandon that trust, but deepen it. Hope is the settled, unwavering confidence that this God will not leave us or forsake us, but will always have more in store for us than we could ask or think.

I do not imagine for a minute that in the coming age we shall arrive at a point where we shall have experienced everything the new world has to offer, and will become bored (as is imagined by some scornful contemporary visions of “heaven”). That is a gross caricature, born of the bland talk about “heaven” that has characterized “afterlife” speculation in the Western world over the last century or two.

In contrast, because I believe that the God we know in Jesus is the God of utterly generous, outflowing love, I believe that there will be no end to the new creation of God, and that within the new age itself there will always be more to hope for, more to work for, more to celebrate. Learning to hope in the present time is learning not just to hope for a better place than we currently find ourselves in, but learning to trust the God who is and will remain the God of the future.

N.T. Wright, After You Believe, p 204-5

Huh.

The glory of the resurrection of Jesus, celebrated at Easter, is the promise that one day he will finish what he started when he rose from the dead, and the whole world will be resurrected in a new creation. And that won’t be a singular event, but “there will be no end to the new creation of God… there will always be more to hope for, more to work for, more to celebrate.”

God is now, and God will always be, the God of a future which will forever be unfolding in new hopes satisfied, new work to be joyfully accomplished, and new discoveries to be celebrated.

That’s partly what Easter is about.
A never-ending new creation.

That’s worth celebrating, friend.
Let’s start today.