Present Suffering and Future Glory

Meditating Romans 8:18
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“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”

Paul wrote this letter to the Christians both Jewish and Gentiles in Rome approximately A.D. 57 from Corinth.
In this marvelous chapter 8, he encouraged believers to look beyond the present situation and see the hope of future glory.

We see the world today as physically decaying and all humanity spiritually in decline, the moral fibre of society are disintegrating.
Ultimately this all leads to death and destruction.

So what is our response then? Do we live just for temporal things?
Business as usual mindset? Eat, drink and be merry? Work hard, play hard attitude?
The Bible defines us all as “Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.”

In many ways, we are a proud modern civilization with all its grandeur and accomplishments in science, arts, technology, engineering, sociology, humanities, you name it.
Yet we are all sick human beings. Destined to live between a day to 100 years if our body is healthy and no dreadful calamity befall upon us.

But here we are, in the first quarter of year 2020. We saw the world groaning and presently grappling the pandemic that practically Shuts Down all of these “pursuit of pleasure” generational lifestyle.

God is telling us to reflect how small we are, weak and vulnerable we become.

What an irony isn’t it?

In any given day we can be wipe-out in the face of the earth. But God gives us faith and hope for the things that are spiritual and eternal.

Spend time in this lock-down to remember God and meditate His promises of future glory that is incorruptible, holy, perfect and glorious.