The Hope of Glory
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
We
are taught in Romans 5 that the believer in Christ receives
justification, peace with God, access to God and the “hope,” or
anticipation, of sharing His glory some day. God wants His children to
enjoy this coming glory by faith, to live in eager anticipation of it.
How
much there is to humiliate us in this life! God created man in His own
image and likeness, but man sinned and fell from his exalted position.
To Adam God said:
“Cursed is the ground because of thee; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”
Since
that dreadful day man’s life has been a constant struggle. Everything
tends to go wrong rather than right. Each has his share of trouble,
sorrow, sickness and then — death, the greatest humiliation of all, when
in sickness and pain, or at best in utter weakness, he must give up
this life itself.
Sin
and the fall! This is what modern science and philosophy fail to face
up to. Most popular scientists and philosophers today hold that man has
come up from the slime pit and the ape to modern man; that man is
improving all the time. But the truth of God’s Word is that man has
fallen through sin and is growing worse morally and spiritually until
now he can kill more of his fellowmen faster than he ever could before.
But
it is this fact, this fact of sin and the fall that God has so
graciously provided for. He took all the suffering and shame, paid all
the penalty for our sins, and then rose from the dead so that we might
rejoice in the hope, the eager anticipation, of glory to come!
As St. Peter puts it in I Pet. 1:3:
“[He] hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
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