Do you feel yourself groaning for the time when we will be in our Heavenly home? Do you think you have to "help" God out to make it faster?
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Rom 8:24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
The Cross was at once the most horrible and the most beautiful example of God's wrath. It was the most just and the most gracious act in history. God would have been more than unjust, He would have been diabolical to punish Jesus if Jesus had not first willingly taken on Himself the sins of the world. Once Christ had done that, once He volunteered to be the Lamb of God, laden with our sin, then He became the most grotesque and vile thing on this planet. With the concentrated load of sin He carried, He became utterly repugnant to the Father. God poured out His wrath on this obscene thing. God made Christ accursed for the sin He bore. Herein was God's holy justice perfectly manifest. Yet it was done for us. He took what justice demanded from us.
- RC Sproul, The Holiness of God (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1998), 121
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Amen Lord for your free gift of eternal life♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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There are moments where I let out some pretty loud "groans." I know that we don't know the time or the hour so I don't worry too much about when. I do hope to do all that I'm meant to while I'm here....seems to be taking me a long time to figure that out...but I don't think there's any way we can "help" God along. In His Time!
Amen with you for God's free gift...what a price was paid for us!!
I love the book where this quote comes from. I needed Christ to die for me because no other sacrifice could be acceptable to God. I am thankful for Christ imputing His righteousness to me and for him taking on my sins.
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