LIBERATED AT LAST

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.–Romans 8:21

Words cannot describe all the flaws and failures of this fallen world. Although we Christians are not “of it” we are “in it”, and that subjects us to a lot of suffering. Indeed we are “in it”, but not forever–there’s a better day a coming. We shall be liberated at last! James Smith had this mind on that day when he wrote these words in 1862:

No more disease, no more weakness, no more pain!

“The creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay–and brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God!”

We shall soon have ‘glorious liberty’!

The SOUL will be gloriously free:
free from every fetter that binds it,
free from every conflict that tries it, and
free from every burden that bows it down.

The BODY will be gloriously free! It will be a glorious body–like the body of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

No more disease, no more weakness, no more pain!
But health, strength, and ease will characterize it forever!

The whole person, body, soul, and spirit–will be in perfect liberty:
free from the curse–and every cross;
free from every foe–and all our fears;
free from every fault–and our numerous failings;
free from frailty–and free from folly;
free from all internal, external, and eternal evil.

It will be freedom crowned with glory–with . . .
glorious beauty,
glorious brightness,
glorious majesty,
glorious honor, and
ineffable splendor!

Eye has never seen, ear has never heard, nor has the heart of man ever conceived of anything so grand, so magnificent, so glorious–as what God has provided, and has in store for His people!