However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.” —1 Corinthians 2:9.
Children’s look forward to Christmas, holidays, and summer vacations. They imagine how great those things could be. Christians look forward to heaven and dream of seeing the Lord face to face, reuniting with those we love that have gone home to the Lord before us, and sharing in the glory of Jesus and his angels. But we can’t begin to imagine the great things that God has prepared for us without the Spirit’s help. They are far more glorious than anything we can dream or imagine. So let’s anticipate being surprised with glory and live until then with passion for the cause of the Kingdom. We know that any loss, any wound, any trouble, will not be worth comparing to the glory to be revealed in us (Romans 8:18). And, because we do have the Holy Spirit, let’s ask the Spirit who helps understand glimpses of this glory, we can anticipate what glorious things are actually coming us (1 Corinthians 2:10). Because of the Holy Spirit in us, the meaning of this Scripture is changed for us who have the Holy Spirit. It focuses us on the anticipation and understanding of the future by the power of the Spirit, who gives life to our mortal body (Romans 8:11).