It appears as though this devotion did not make it out yesterday as was written so - Today Moltmann takes a look at where it is that we get this notion of the body being negative. To the degree to which we sense the first stirrings of true life, we also become aware of the degree to which life has miscarried. In the dayspring colours of their new creation, the things of the world become manifest in their unredeemedness. what we had thought was 'quite natural', because we saw no alternative, becomes evident as profoundly unnatural in the light of redemption. With the first experience of the life-giving Spirit of God we simultaneously hear the deep 'sighing' of unredeemed creation round about us, and we ourselves begin to long for the redemption of the body from the destiny of death (Romans 8:22f). We do not yearn at all for the soul to be redeemed from its fragile body. What we long for is the eternal coming-alive of the body (Rom. 8:11). |
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