A trip to the Emergency Room

The fact is we go through things each day which tell of a perfect world. One only need to sit in the middle of imperfection to see that there is much more out there. If Ecclesiastes 3:11 is correct and “eternity is set in the hearts of men,” then it takes very little imagination to see that we are yearning for “a country…a better country (Hebrews 11:13-16). Everywhere we look in these places that testify of imperfection, we see those who will be out of jobs when the kingdom comes. I realize that those who have redeemed bodies (Romans 8) will have no need for hospitals. Ambulances will have no home but the junkyard and the drivers will need to retrain to another trade. The security guards will need to go back to school and those who are brandishing firearms will need to find a new instrument to master. When the Great Miracle Worker rules and reigns on the throne of His father David (see 2 Samuel 7:16 and Hosea 3) with a “rod of iron” (Psalm 2:5-12; Revelation 2-3), there will be no need for buzzer-activated doors, security cameras, or metal detectors.

My wife, who has had eight surgeries on her abdomen (to include three "c-sections"), will know nothing of such things with her glorified body. Our bodies will be like His body (1 John 3:2)—fashioned like His glorious body (Philippians 3:20). I guess that means we will be spared co-pays for pharmaceuticals. They will have no claim on this body. Poor America—the people live longer…longer and more miserably than anywhere else on the globe for those longer years, it seems.

I walked to the vending room where I saw a soldier who was with his wife whom he fears is miscarrying a second time in two pregnancies. I think about how the 100-year old will be considered an infant when he dies (Isaiah 65:20) in the millennium.