Daily Reading for Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

Reading 1, Romans 8:18-25

¹⁸ In my estimation, all that we suffer in the present time is nothing in comparison with the glory which is destined to be disclosed for us,

¹⁹ for the whole creation is waiting with eagerness for the children of God to be revealed.

²⁰ It was not for its own purposes that creation had frustration imposed on it, but for the purposes of him who imposed it-

²¹ with the intention that the whole creation itself might be freed from its slavery to corruption and brought into the same glorious freedom as the children of God.

²² We are well aware that the whole creation, until this time, has been groaning in labour pains.

²³ And not only that: we too, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we are groaning inside ourselves, waiting with eagerness for our bodies to be set free.

²⁴ In hope, we already have salvation; in hope, not visibly present, or we should not be hoping -- nobody goes on hoping for something which is already visible.

²⁵ But having this hope for what we cannot yet see, we are able to wait for it with persevering confidence.