Worth The Wait

Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling. 

2 Corinthians 5:2

This isn't  waiting about "True-Love-Waits" or "Chick Flicks" thing but rather to a different kind of waiting- the grandest and glorious one. I am only 33, neither so young nor so old, but is already squint-eyed without my eyeglasses on. That wasn't so until more than twelve years ago. I guess I don't always want to admit that my body is not going to be intact forever- it regress as it grow older. A known fact in a fallen world.

The fall of man in the garden of Eden stung the latter lethally and so cause death and corruption bodily and spiritually. Gracious God He is, the promise of redemption by Christ's atoning work on the cross is the redemption of man's whole being- body and soul.

In the discussion of the ORDER OF SALVATION (Ordu Salutis), the redemption of our body will occur in what is called by theologians as GLORIFICATION.  The final step in the application of redemption  happens when Christ returns and raises from the dead the bodies of all believers and those who remain alive at his coming, thereby giving all believers at the same time perfect resurrection bodies like his own. 

Christians  long for the redemption of their bodies. Even the whole creation eagerly awaits and groans for the full enjoyment of the promise. Commenting on Romans 8:18-25, Puritan Matthew Henry said,

"The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and but for a moment. How vastly different are the sentence of the word and the sentiment of the world, concerning the sufferings of this present time! 

Indeed the whole creation seems to wait with earnest expectation for the period when the children of God shall be manifested in the glory prepared for them. There is an impurity, deformity, and infirmity, which has come upon the creature by the fall of man. There is an enmity of one creature to another. And they are used, or abused rather, by men as instruments of sin. 

Yet this deplorable state of the creation is in hope. God will deliver it from thus being held in bondage to man's depravity. The miseries of the human race, through their own and each other's wickedness, declare that the world is not always to continue as it is. 

Our having received the first-fruits of the Spirit, quickens our desires, encourages our hopes, and raises our expectations. Sin has been, and is, the guilty cause of all the suffering that exists in the creation of God. It has brought on the woes of earth; it has kindled the flames of hell. 

As to man, not a tear has been shed, not a groan has been uttered, not a pang has been felt, in body or mind, that has not come from sin. This is not all; sin is to be looked at as it affects the glory of God. Of this how fearfully regardless are the bulk of mankind! Believers have been brought into a state of safety; but their comfort consists rather in hope than in enjoyment. From this hope they cannot be turned by the vain expectation of finding satisfaction in the things of time and sense. 

We need patience, our way is rough and long; but He that shall come, will come, though he seems to tarry."

On  that great day we will no longer have these poor, frail, dying bodies, subject to weakness, sinfulness and decay, but spiritual bodies. The day when we are glorified will be a day of great victory because on that day, the last enemy, death will be destroyed, just as the Scripture predicts:

"For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death."  (1 Corinthians 15:25-26)

FOR IN THIS WE GROAN, EARNESTLY DESIRING 

TO BE CLOTHED UPON WITH OUR HOUSE WHICH IS FROM HEAVEN. 

COME LORD JESUS! EVE SO COME! COME! COME! COME!

.....and when He shall return in His majesty I shall be raised in glory and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoyment of God to all eternity....

After then, these eyeglasses will be useless anymore....