Hitting the Refresh Button

A while ago I noticed an ad campaign for a hospital that was advertising knee and hip replacements, perhaps other joint replacements as well. Their tag line was “Hit the Refresh Button”. The idea is that when you have a knee replaced, it takes you back to your youth…hitting the refresh button…giving you a new start. Now I know that some of you have had these types of surgeries and you know that they are not quite that effective. Hitting the refresh button on your knee doesn’t take you back to your knee of age 25. However, we understand the point. Paul writes about our bodies actually groaning in anticipation of being “refreshed” by the absence of sin. Here are verses 23-25: “23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.” At age 54 I have not yet seen too many physical limitations where my body is groaning but I sure have experienced the ravages of sin and temptation. I’m pretty sure that my body is groaning [though I can’t hear it] to be relieved of the damage done by sin. I know that my mind is certainly groaning for the day when I will no longer give in to the temptation that so easily ensnares me. I hope that you can appreciate the amazing idea of getting to hit the refresh button on your body. I still don’t know exactly what heavenly or glorified bodies will look like or what we will “feel”; but I know that just as all of creation will be redeemed and glorified beautifully; my body and yours will experience a similar transformation…and there won’t be any physical therapy to endure!