As I mentioned
last week, it is important for us to focus on the things we have received in
Jesus ALREADY instead of focusing on the shortcomings of the NOT YET. But we
can also look forward to the additional blessings that we will possess in the
future when the shortcomings will be completely filled up in Resurrection. So,
we glory now but we do so with an eager anticipation and hope of something even
more glorious.
As we look around at our fellow saints,
we should have the present sense of being in Heaven.
How can this be? It seems
like just another day at church, not heaven.
But the greatness of heaven is the
collected saints of God around His throne, without sin and without death,
forever basking in the glory of God. And here we are, the gathered saints,
gathered around the throne of God, without fear of condemnation, celebrating
the death of Jesus who gave the deathblow to death. This may not be heaven,
proper, but it is a foretaste of heaven and should whet our appetites for the
greater glory that is to come and that we already possess in part here and now.
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