Glorification

I think glorification is a very frightening and magnificent idea, partly because I do not know much about it, but mainly because we would have lived and accustomed all our lives in imperfection but we would soon be made perfect. Imagine that the process of salvation were to end there and then, and finally you are able to call yourself Saved to Completion by God's faithfulness. We would receive a perfect body. How do I even begin to imagine what a perfect body looks like? C.S. Lewis did some description of it in The Great Divorce, and it was kind of similar to my idea of an 'ageless' one, having both the characteristics of infancy and maturity. But to describe anything to do with glorification is to romanticize glorification, and it would be hardly true. I don't think anyone can describe glorification when we are imperfect still any more than we can describe timelessness when we are bounded by time.

But give me the opportunity to romanticize, and glorification would seem like this. One would be sinless, and when we talk about being sinless, we are saying that one is infinitely less sinful than we now are. Comparative language does not make sense any more. Because the state one is in is infinity, and hence uncomparable. You can take someone who has already passed away and glorified. And suddenly it dawns upon you (in a frightful manner) that they are now sinless. They are incapable of sinning. While on earth you might think of them as being more sinful than you are, or you living a more righteous life than they did, or them doing nasty things to people but once they pass away and God made them perfect in that instant, you become infinitely more sinful and infinitely nastier compared to them. You become the Devil, and they, the Angels. Over there, they still retain their free will, but all they would choose is goodness, and nothing else. This is nothing like you, while you are still on earth, imperfect, constantly in a struggle to choose good from evil.

I shall stop here. Like I said, I am merely romanticizing it. The real thing, the real glorification, will be so much more wonderful and magnificent. And for that, no language can describe it.