Part 7 of 31 from "Christ our Righteousness".
By Carl Oluf Rosenius.
(1816-1868)
Translated from ekris.net
“Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.” 2.Corinthians 6:10.
Doesn’t this sound mysteriously? They have to be curious people, then, who can testify like that of their position and their life.
Oppressed, but still victorious; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet rich; sinful, yet righteous; miserable and despised, yet loved; strangers and foreigners on earth, yet with citizenship in heaven. A strange people.
Others have their joys and delights as well. But ´the grass dries up and the flowers wither away`, says God’s word. And if it’s over with the earthly happiness, then it’s probably over with the joy too. To Paul on the other hand – and all saved people with him - the real sun rise in the evening. When it becomes dark in this world, he summons up to the light in God’s paradise. He actually leads a double life: as a wanderer on earth, but with citizenship and heart in heaven. ´But our native country is in heaven`, he says. It is in heaven – not only that it will be there.
What Paul talks about here, is something quite different from what the world thinks of with a hope of a life after this one. Even now, while he is on this earth, he knows to himself that he is a citizen of heaven.
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Translation Gert Gravgaard
