At The Last Trumpet Call

“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 NKJV

The Scripture says that God is Spirit (John 4:24). So are we. We are spirits. What we are wearing now is our earthly bodies. But we will be wearing our heavenly bodies when we enter into eternity. As God is invisible, so are we. What we see is our bodies. But we cannot see our spirits. By the second law of thermodynamics our bodies are being wasted away gradually as well as all the materials in the universe. But the invisible inner man [human spirit] is being renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:16). That's our hope for the bodily redemption.

No matter who we are and what we are, we groan at times because we want to be further clothed in our true and eternal home, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. The Father God has prepared for us the wonderful heavenly tents in which we have hope that never disappoint us. Paul said in his letter to the Corinthians. “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52 NKJV)

This hope we have, so we are always confident and bold. What is seen is temporal but what is unseen is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). Do we really hope for this? I mean always!