While we have considered that the work of redemption is finished, there is another aspect of it that we are yet to know. All creation is, as it were, in the pains of labor, to know full redemption. This will have its effect in all the earth, in all people. There is this also that we must know: what is yet to be known will issue forth from the work the Lord Jesus brought to completion in His death, burial and resurrection. And, we should add this, His ascension to the right hand of the Father. Add all that has been accomplished in Christ to the travail of believers, and the travail of creation, and we have a powerful combination. Yet, there is another element—an exceedingly powerful one—that joins with all the above. Actually, it supercedes them all. This is God’s Covenant Word. All these work together toward bringing the Day of the Lord onward. All are powerful. All embrace us who believe in Christ Jesus. All have the stroke of eternity lodged in them.

Romans 8:22,23—For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain (birth pangs) together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits (the first portion) of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the REDEMPTION of our body.

 

FATHER, this is beyond my comprehension. But, this is sure: there is a longing in me for more than I have known.  I see—oh, I see so clearly—there is a lack in me that can only be supplied by Your full presence. I cannot be satisfied till I know Your likeness. Please come upon me, and these others, by Your Spirit. Increase the longing in us all for Your Day, for Your glory that covers the earth,  and for the redemption that heals us all.

The Cry of a Soul Longing for Full Redemption
Psalm 17:1-15