"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."–1 Cor. 15:51
This word represents all that I want to be and am not now. I don't want to be like I am anymore, do you? This is the final and ultimate sense of the word salvation. Christ has saved this sinner in every way that a man can be saved, and the only sense in which I still wait is this. It is already done as far as He is concerned, that is, it is accomplished fully, by what He did for me. Rom 8: 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
He has known me from the time before there was time and set His affection upon me. He fixed in His sovereign, immutable purpose every aspect of my existence and experience from the beginning to the glorious end. He called me effectually out of darkness into His marvelous light. He established and imputed to me a perfect righteousness and paid for all my sin, making me spotless and pure in God's sight. He secured my ultimate glorification and interceded for me to the end that I might be like Him and with Him forever (John 17:24),and now I wait, rejoicing in the possession of all this at His gracious will and expense.
Rejoicing and yet groaning (2 Cor 5:4). I love, in a sense, even this death that we call life. I am tremendously blessed of God and enjoy all things in and by Him, but there is in me that desire that Paul had, to depart and be with Him Who made me, loved me, claimed me and shall change me. I don't want to be a selfish fool anymore. I don't want to be so taken up with vanity and tire of that which is good and beautiful anymore. I don't want to be so anxious to pamper this flesh and so cold and disinclined to worship Him Who is altogether lovely anymore.
I don't want to be despondent. We have so much about which to rejoice, but forgive me if at times my heart seems a little heavy. May we be content with the fact that we are where He wants us, until that blessed day in which we shall be changed.