Tuesday 1 March 2022
Our words can reveal whether death or life is at work in us. Yet, only when we are clothed in immortality are we able to cry out: “O Death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
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Our words can reveal whether death or life is at work in us. Yet, only when we are clothed in immortality are we able to cry out: “O Death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
“We are of courage … so whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.”
In this verse, Paul is speaking of the desire to be ‘at home’ with the Lord in heavenly glory rather than in exile here in the body on earth. Yet he counsels courage in whatever state we are in, because of the hope of what is to be. In doing so he recognises that there is a connection between the fullness of the Kingdom which is to come and the arena of the fallen world in which we live at the present.
What sort of crop will we produce? Will we decide to become good grain to be gathered safely into heaven; or become weeds which are separated out and thrown away? This is the choice which is given to us.