2020 for JESUS - Day 248: JESUS is GOD... THIS HOPE... HIS SON... THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS...

 

Romans 8:18-30

Present Suffering and Future Glory

^18 “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 

¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of GOD to be revealed. 

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 

²¹ that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of GOD.

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 

²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of THE SPIRIT, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 

²⁴ For in THIS HOPE we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

²⁶ In 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 through wordless groans. 

²⁷ And HE WHO  searches our hearts knows the mind of THE SPIRIT, because THE SPIRIT intercedes for GOD’s people in accordance with the will of GOD.

²⁸ And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to HIS purpose. 

²⁹ For those GOD foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS SON, that HE might be THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 

³⁰ And those HE predestined, HE also called; 

those HE called, HE also justified; 

those HE justified, HE also glorified.”