Meditation

Good morning, Reader,

The good we do with our resources, the gifts, the causes we support, the impact we make, is part of a much larger story that continues long after your part in it ends.

Paul's evocative language in Romans, which we'll copy out today, emphasizes that our lives play out against the broad canvas of all creation groaning, waiting to be liberated.

Paul makes the same point again to the Philippians about our bodies: what looks like an ending is actually a transformation, not a conclusion.

Our inheritance is a plan not just for what happens to our physical assets, but for what our life ultimately adds up to.

The impact that outlives us is possible precisely because our end is not the end: "Our citizenship is in heaven".

Today's verses are Romans 8:18-23

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.¹⁹For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

²⁰For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope²¹that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

²³Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

Encouragement

²⁰But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,²¹who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

Philippians 3:20-21

Andy

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