Heavenly Longing: For an Earthly Possession

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Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long  to look. 1 Peter 1:10-12

Of the heavenly beings - would that they were to share in the mortal disposition of longing, seems foreign; an intruder to logic, if they were any logic to speak of, that one can attribute to these creatures of the supernatural. Is not to them, the presence of the Almighty given, with no intermission, no time, with which to coddle or cultivate the depths of longing? Is not to them given, at present, the coveted task, of never ending worship to the creator of heaven and earth. Seemingly there should be no corner nor crevice of these creatures being, that is not overflowing to overflowing with the satisfaction, produced of God's glory viewed. And yet, enigmatically, we are told that longing has taken residence within the angel. Refreshingly surprising is what they long for, and what's more, who is in possession of the subject of their longing. God the Spirit moved the hand of Peter to scribe, of the prophets - that while in pursuit of the person, time, sufferings and subsequent glories of the Christ, they served us (the Christian). With only the hind parts of the gospel in view, their efforts, like a chorus, accompany the good news. The good news that when preached descales eyes and turns to flesh, hearts once stone - a reality, not only experienced by Peter's immediate audience, but by us presently and surely the many after us.

What is left to say? Can words adequately capture the magnificence that is the gospel and it's outworking. How perplexingly marvelous is God the Son's descent and earthly, flesh encapsulated, sinless, law fulfilling, tenure? How wondrous his substitutionary obedience to death on cross? How fortifyingly assuring, his resurrection from the the grave. We possess a gloriously saving and sustaining message equalled by none. For by any other message, can it be said that "angels long to look?"

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