What are you hoping for?

When we think of the new heavens and the new earth, we tend to think of Revelation 21 - no more tears, death, mourning, crying or pain. Or we might think of the banquet of Matt 22 - they're great things to be looking forward to, but Paul has an interesting take on this in Galatians 5:5:

By faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.

Are you eagerly awaiting and hoping for righteousness?! That is, pure justice, unsullied goodness, absolute truth, unquestionable integrity and so on. All these things in you and me and everyone else.
And when we put it like that, of course we're all eagerly awaiting these things! And when we live by faith and in the Spirit, we begin to experience these things now - it's as if they come into the present from the future.


PS Do you like the photo?! (Thanks Caz!)