This is hope - not a wish or desire, but a certainty of what is to come. What we suffer now pales in comparison to what God will work in us when we are bought back in our bodies as we are now in our souls. So we can persevere in patient steadfastness through difficult and troubling times with something far better to look forward to!
Romans 8:18, 8:23-25
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. … 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
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