[22] For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. [23] And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. [24] We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don't need to hope for it. [25] But if we look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

Romans 8:22-25 NLT

Waiting.

Groaning.

Hoping.

Looking forward.

Adopted and being adopted.

Saved and being saved.

This passage from Paul holds us in this redemptive tension that is what we might just call life, being human, living in the now and the not yet...

How does that look for you today?

"We were given this hope when we were saved" - this is our state now, our way of being, living in this hope of all that is yet to come...

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