According to Paul in Romans 8, the comfort of the Holy Ghost for us includes the promise of our resurrection one day. The same spirit that raised up Christ will also raise up all of Christ's people!
That power of Christ rising again will be deployed in every single one of the Lord's people!
Then glory will be revealed in us, a glory that far exceeds the suffering of this world.
But then, Paul inserts an argument about the creation as a startling example of the glory that will one day be revealed in us.
That glorification of Christ's people will include the salvation of the natural world from the corruption of sin and death.
It is as if Paul is saying, if we can hardly grasp the glory about to be revealed in us by the Holy Ghost, then look at how that same glory will result in the restoration and saving of the natural world!
This is a teaching that most believers find wholly novel, and yet Paul thinks it an important reason why the glory of our resurrection is particularly spectacular.
We don't like to think that man's fall so marred the physical creation, but it did. That fact explains all the pain and sorrow and dying and suffering of the entire world.
But Paul teaches that our coming into glory by the resurrection power of Christ through the Holy Ghost, will have visible and astonishing effect upon the whole creation.
That great glory that will be revealed to us at our resurrection, will extend to the whole creation.
All the brokenness of the animals, their violence, their brutal deaths, their tragic existence, and the malignant power of nature, will finally be set right, with goodness restored, and Christ's righteousness overwhelming the world like a flood.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
