Suffering Here, Glory There

No battle is pleasant when we are in it. However, sufferings often cause us to look toward Heaven and find hope.

Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

The glory that shall be revealed in us is a change of address and appearance. In Heaven our frail, weak, dying bodies will be replaced with perfect, eternal bodies like that of Jesus. But our sufferings are not worthy to be compared to Glory.

2 Corinthians 4:17,18 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Thank God, that while there is suffering here, there is Glory there.