“Eager Hope”

 “Eager Hope”

 

For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  And we Believers also groan even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.  We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as His Adopted Children.  Including the NEW BODIES, He has promised us.   Romans 8:23-24

 

The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the True Believers in Rome, speaks of the EAGER HOPE of the TRUE BELIEVERS, in verses 18-30, and of the FUTURE GLORY of the ones who have been ADOPTED into the Family of God. We like Paul, and the other BELIEVERS, are EAGERLY WAITING for the TIME when GOD says to His Son, JESUS; “Son, it is TIME, Go get My Children, Your REWARD.” 

 

But NOTICE that in the twenty-third verse, the Apostle Paul tells us that not only God’s Children are EAGERLY AWAITING the RETURN of JESUS and the CHANGES that will be made.  We, the TRUE BELIEVERS are GROANING within and EAGERLY WAITING for the REDEMPTION of our EARTHLY BODIES.  The difficulties we experience NOW, PALE GREATLY in COMPARISON with the NEW LIFE we have been EAGERLY WAITING and HOPING for.  Paul also gives the analogy that creation is groaning with pains like the pains in childbirth and are continuing even up to the PRESENT DAY.  

 

We, Believers, are groaning also, even though we have the HOLY SPIRIT abiding in us as a FORETASTE of the FUTURE GLORY.  We SO LOOK FORWARD with a GREAT EAGER HOPE for the DAY when our bodies will become NEW and FREE from SIN and SUFFERING.  And when we will RECEIVE our FULL RIGHTS as God’s ADOPTED CHILDREN, and when our REDEMPTION is COMPLETED.  Are YOU EAGERLY WAITING or FEARFUL of the mere THOUGHT of it happening?

 

We are living in the LAST DAYS, and ONE DAY ALL TRUE BELIEVERS, will leave this WRETCHED OLD, SINFUL WORLD, with ALL the SUFFERING and SIN increasing.  Then will come a very BAD time, known as the TRIBULATION PERIOD.  MANY will SUFFER and DIE because the WRATH of GOD will be poured out UPON the WORLD at this TIME.    If you don’t believe me, just READ the BIBLE in the BOOK of REVELATION.   It’s NOT TOO LATE to TURN AWAY FROM your SINS and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  Admit that YOU are a SINNER, in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, God’s ONLY SON, who GAVE His LIFE to SAVE you from an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there.  You MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for you before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and have that EAGER HOPE and ANTICIPATION of JESUS’ RETURN, because HE IS COMING BACK!!  Do this NOW while you STILL CAN. He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND!!!