“For we all know that if the tent that’s our earthly house is destroyed, we’ve a constructing from God, a home not made with arms, everlasting within the heavens” (2 Cor. 5:1).
Ache all the time includes our our bodies. It may be no different approach. We really feel even mental and emotional struggling within the physique. It is because we’re embodied spirits—we’re every manufactured from a physique and soul . . . collectively . . . all the time.
Due to this fact, once we undergo ache or we’re ministering to a different Christian amid theirs, it’s useful for us to do not forget that the our bodies we at present inhabit are momentary. Sometime, on the resurrection, we are going to get new ones—our bodies proof against struggling of any sort. Till then, “we groan” underneath assorted burdens, whereas “longing to placed on our heavenly dwelling” (2 Cor. 5:2). Two easy truths from Scripture instill hope within the hurting coronary heart.
We Will Obtain a New Physique Sometime
The verse cited above encourages us to be assured in our information that even “if the tent that’s our earthly house is destroyed, we’ve a constructing from God, a home not made with arms, everlasting within the heavens.” Although the our bodies we now occupy are constructed by God, we’ve one other constructing from God that’s infinitely higher: an everlasting residence with him. Our present flesh and blood “can not inherit the dominion of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable” (1 Cor. 15:50), however someday, all who know Jesus might be raised to obtain new our bodies that can dwell in eternal glory with the Savior. When that day comes, your perishable physique will placed on the imperishable, and your mortal physique will placed on immortality (see v. 53). This resurrected physique would be the everlasting home in your soul, and the brand new heavens and earth might be your everlasting residence.
Heaven Is Our Everlasting Resting Place
Even now, Jesus is getting ready a spot for many who belief in Him. Earlier than He ascended bodily into heaven, He spoke these reassuring phrases to His followers: “In my Father’s home are many rooms. If it weren’t so, would I’ve informed you that I’m going to arrange a spot for you? And if I’m going and put together a spot for you, I’ll come once more and can take you to myself, that the place I’m chances are you’ll be additionally” (John 14:2-3). The disciples have been rightly troubled. Jesus had simply informed them He was going to go away them. He was now aiming the remainder of His life straight on the cross. However He helped them to place bother in its correct place by redirecting their consideration to their promised future. In a world full of bother and every kind of struggling, what a consolation it’s to have Jesus as our refuge and heaven as our everlasting resting place!
Struggling is in us and throughout us, but when we’re trusting in Jesus as our Savior and Lord, we’ve a positive promise. At some point, our spirits might be delivered from our our bodies of illness, incapacity, and dying, and we might be clothed with an everlasting tent—a constructing that’s higher than our present home. Due to this fact, “we’re all the time of fine braveness. We all know that whereas we’re at residence within the physique we’re away from the Lord, for we stroll by religion, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:6-7).
Questions for Reflection
- Do you could have a balanced view of your earthly physique? Do you see it as a brief place in your immortal soul? How would possibly in case you are caring in your physique with correct stewardship with out idolizing your well being or physique?
- How would possibly the Spirit use bodily ache to wean your coronary heart’s affection away from the world and switch the eyes of your coronary heart to Christ?
- How would possibly renewing the thoughts with these biblical truths strengthen the individual enduring continual ache or going through the fact of terminal sickness?
