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Romans 8:24

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18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope21thatOr subjected it in hope. 21 For the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?

25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

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Simy - (eBible Novice) 9 months ago.

Who hopes for what he already has? Hope that is not seen is no hope at all. This verse just spoke into my situation. In dispair, conflict, confusion HE remains the hope that keeps me hoping. The promise that I need to wait patiently on. I need to pray for strength and for patience. I need to hold on the promises of God...it's tough

paulwhelms - (eBible Mentor) 7 months ago.

What is our guiding hope, the unseen reality that our faith is directed at? It is simply and beautifully this -- eternal life with Christ through the promised resurrection. This shows in Paul's description of his own salvation in Philippians 3, as he talks about how Christ 'had made him his own'. Paul lost all that he had known in coming to this knowledge of Christ, and all of his life's purpose was directed toward the end of knowing Jesus and the fellowship of His suffering, even to the point of imminent execution. What is the ending to this great passage about enduring all of these things? "...that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead." Here, too, Paul has been talking about suffering and now he reminds them that there is a greater purpose to their living and dying for Christ which will only be clear in the coming age. For now we are to live faithfully for this unseen hope, which looks like foolishness and a giving-away of everything precious to those living under the light of the various hopes of the world. As John says, 'what we will be has not yet appeared...' (1 John 3:2).