He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
Revelation 21:4
What comfort Christian future hope brings at a time such as this! Humanity always lives with the reality of our mortality... with pain, sickness, death and our emotional turmoil of dread, mourning, tears, and crying. But when God remakes this world and Jesus restores all of creation to God’s original design, freed from sin’s curse, these heartaches will all vanish to become only recollections!
But until then there will be tears and crying. Until then sickness, pain, and death must be mourned. Why? We must grieve what is wrong. We know this is not the kind of world we were made for! We feel it very intensely now! It calls us to consider that God offers so much more. A sin-marred world is being redeemed in Jesus, one day to be totally remade by Him!
The time is coming when all the things we now grieve over... all the things that hurt and destroy... ALL of them will become “former things”. Death will be a memory of a long ago bad age. Death itself will be a defeated plague. And eternity rolls forward in a beautiful world remade glorious, filled with the presence of God. Those who repent of sin, and follow Jesus hold onto the future hope that our present pains will indeed by distant memories... swallowed up in the eternal life and pleasures of being with our Creator, taking in His glorious new universe, and living as we were always made to live.
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