Confidence in the Incarnation

Is there a vision of the future in which we can have enough confidence to find meaning in today? What is the basis of that vision in a world that seems to have no confidence in any ultimate reality? Without that ultimate vision we become experience-seekers, moving on to the next stimulating experience when the current one fades (relationally, spiritually, emotionally, and drug-seeking behavior at its extreme.)

T. F. Torrance suggests that vision is not rooted in a future-state dualistic heaven with the destruction of creation, as typically in Evangelicalism, but a here-and-now reality that is yet to be revealed. The confidence in it is rooted in both the character of the Trinity’s love and that the redemption of creation was intended before its existence. [He uses the term "church" here way beyond any institutional expression]:

“The church of the risen Lord has no right to be a prophet of gloom or despair, for this world has been redeemed and sanctified by Christ and he will not let it go. The corruptible clay of our poor earth has been taken up in Jesus, is consecrated through his sacrifice and resurrection, and he will not allow it to sink back into corruption. Hence the whole creation groans and travails waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, looking forward with eager expectation to the hour of final liberation and renewal in the advent of its risen savior.”

Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ Thomas F. Torrance, Ed: Robert T. Walker; Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic and Paternoster, 2009. p 263