The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.
All believers are heirs of God Himself and joint-heirs with Christ, not by their own merit, but purely by His act. Though now they are heirs still under age, educated and prepared, they possess in reversion what the world counts as nothing. How comfortable for the poor saint: his poverty matters little when he inherits God Himself and all things with Christ.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 8:17-25
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (21) Fourthly, he plainly teaches us that we will certainly be renewed from that confusion and horrible deformation of the whole world, which cannot be continual, as it was not this way at the beginning: but as it had a beginning by the sin of man, for whom it...
19 For the intent expectation of the creation, etc. He teaches us that there is an example of the patience, to which he had exhorted us, even in mute creatures. For, to omit various interpretations, I understand the passage to have this meaning — that there is no element and no part of the world which, being touched, as it were, with a sense of...