Our Hope and the Coming Glory
The New Testament has many verses which speak about hope. This hope is from God as a part of our initial salvation. Romans 8:24 says “we were saved in hope.”
Hope awaits something we do not yet have. Romans 8 continues, “a hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it through endurance.” Because our hope is from God it is surely something to be eager about.
We eagerly await all that God has for us at the coming of Christ and beyond. This group of posts focuses on hope and glory, which are together in seven verses. And glory is realized in full in New Jerusalem.
Romans 5:2 proclaims “Through whom [our Lord Jesus Chris] also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and boast because of the hope of the glory of God.”
Our first solid experience of glory is presented by Philippians 3:21. The Lord “will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory.” This transfiguration follows the regeneration of our spirit and the transformation of our soul. Together, these three actions by God in us (with our cooperation) prepare us for New Jerusalem.
In God’s eyes our body is “of humiliation” because it is constituted with sin and death. These have no place in New Jerusalem. But we have hope! God’s complete salvation not only forgives and regenerates us but takes us much further to be conformed to Christ’s resurrected body of glory.
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Posted by Don on September 13, 2021
