Woke up this morning, climbed out of bed and realized I have my father’s noise. My dad always let a little groan escape as he got up from a chair or sofa. I knew some day it would come to pass to me!
That groan made me laugh and reminded me of the Scripture verse in 1 Corinthians. “Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.” [5:4 HCSB]
2 Corinthians 5 tells us that this body we have here on earth is a temporary, earthly dwelling. The key word there is temporary! One of these days we will leave this temporary dwelling and trade it for a heavenly body (which will never have a groan!)
We will have to wait for our body to be a new creation until we reach our heavenly dwelling. But we don’t have to wait for our soul and spirit to be made new. That happened the moment we surrendered our life to Christ Jesus as Savior and LORD. 2 Corinthians goes on to promise …
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.” [5:17 HCSB]
