Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Keeping the Lord continually before the face and at the right hand gives gladness of heart and rejoicing of glory, and allows the flesh to rest in hope. This gladness and rejoicing belongs to the character of those who have Christ's character and represent it in the world.
David did not speak these words of himself, for he died and remained in his tomb, but spoke prophetically of Christ, as Peter explained in applying them to Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. The words express the Messiah's gladness and confidence toward God that His flesh would rest in hope after death because He would rise again. The next verse explains this confidence, that God would not leave His soul in the grave or among the dead nor allow the Holy One to see decay or corruption, and death could not hold Him. God raised Him from the dead before His body saw corruption.
The same resting in hope teaches that the faithful dead rest in their graves with the hope of being raised when Christ comes and calls them forth, and do not go immediately to heaven. When life's warfare ends the body can rest in hope as the faithful await the morning of the resurrection, when the last trumpet sounds and they shall see the King in His beauty. That hope is grounded in relying on God and trusting that truth will triumph. Applied to Edith's approaching death, resting in hope means the end of pain and suffering is not a cause for mourning.
Keeping the Lord continually before the face and at the right hand gives gladness of heart and rejoicing of glory, and allows the flesh to rest in hope. This gladness and rejoicing belongs to the character of those who have Christ's character and represent it in the world.
David did not speak these words of himself, for he died and remained in his tomb, but spoke prophetically of Christ, as Peter explained in applying them to Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. The words express the Messiah's gladness and confidence toward God that His flesh would rest in hope after death because He would rise again. The next verse explains this confidence, that God would not leave His soul in the grave or among the dead nor allow the Holy One to see decay or corruption, and death could not hold Him. God raised Him from the dead before His body saw corruption.
The same resting in hope teaches that the faithful dead rest in their graves with the hope of being raised when Christ comes and calls them forth, and do not go immediately to heaven. When life's warfare ends the body can rest in hope as the faithful await the morning of the resurrection, when the last trumpet sounds and they shall see the King in His beauty. That hope is grounded in relying on God and trusting that truth will triumph. Applied to Edith's approaching death, resting in hope means the end of pain and suffering is not a cause for mourning.