Principle: Eternal glory offers more than this life.
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Sitting in the dentist’s waiting room, Lucy flicks through House & Garden magazine. She loves the photo shoots of beautifully restored homes. She dreams of a country cottage. But she and her husband have decided to serve God in the city. Looking at the antique furniture and cottage garden of some rural idyll in the country, she begins to wonder whether it’s worth it.
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A day is coming when Christ will be revealed in glory for all to see. A day is coming when God will recreate this sad, broken, sin-ravaged world. A day is coming when God will transform it into a world of joy, life, freedom and justice. We won’t spend eternity up in heaven. Christ is coming from heaven to renew this earth. Our bodies will be raised physically, just as the body of Jesus was raised physically to live for ever in a physical new earth. ‘Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body’ (Philippians 3.20-21; see also Revelation 21.1-5).
