We Will Be Further Clothed

(2 Corinthians 5:1-8)…..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. ² For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, ³ if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. ⁴ 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. ⁵ Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. ⁶ So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. ⁷ For we walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸ We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

God allows us to pass through all the events of life, all the trails, the tragedies and the traumas to prepare us for glory. He uses the pressures of this life to remake us into His perfect image (2 Corinthians 4:17) (Romans 8:18). After all, that is His goal for us (Ephesians 4:13-15). Our trials were not sent to destroy us, but to shape us for His glory (Romans 5:3-4).

Life is filled with problems, trials and tragedies, but there is also hope while we travel here. Notice the hope every child of God has, He tells us that we will be “further clothed” and that “mortality will be swallowed up of life.” We lay down these temporary bodies, because we have a new body and a new life awaiting us in Heaven (1 Corinthians 15:49-58) (Revelation 21:4). To God be the glory!