“And we’ll never have to relocate our “tents” again. Sometimes we can hardly wait to move—and so we cry out in frustration. Compared to what’s coming, living conditions around here seem like a stopover in an unfurnished shack, and we’re tired of it! We’ve been given a glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies!” (2 Corinthians 5:2–4, The Message)
Paul here compares our lives now with what they will be in heaven. In comparison to our resurrection bodies, the bodies that we are in now are like a stopover in an unfinished shack. I'm pretty confident that anyone over 50 needs no further argument to be convinced. Our bodies fall apart; we get aches and pains; we have medical problems; yep, the shack is falling apart.
We do not focus on now, however, we focus on what is coming; we focus on the real thing. This is what gives us hope that this life is not lived in vain, that this shack is only temporary. Christ at the cross secured for us who believe a body made in the heavens and fit for eternity. I can't wait.
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