Bible Minute: Our Earnest Expectation

In Romans 8:19 we read that the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. The creation has been involved in the treadmill of corruption through the sin of man. When our bodies are delivered from their present slavery and death at our Lord's descent from heaven, He will transform them to conform them to His glorious body. Later, when the sons of God are revealed, the creation will be set at liberty from the bondage which now enthralls it. How it ought to comfort us to know that the patient, suffering creatures, who had no hand in their own corruption, will yet find a real release from the pain and sorrow from which they have no escape now! Its physical aspect waits until our Lord's return.