When someone from our church was explaining our beliefs to another person, they replied: “Well, it sounds like you’re just waiting to die!” Is that what we’re doing?
Is that what Paul is saying when hes says this:
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Or this:
2 Corinthians 5:1-4 ¶ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
It isn’t that we are waiting to die, it is that we are toiling toward life.