Hope in Suffering – Day 208

₁₈I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. ₁₉All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children. ₂₀For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope ₂₁that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.