Revelation 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.
Ah, Yes! We long for the Day when the Curse will be removed forever. The Eternal State in the New Jerusalem in the new heavens and new earth restores Creation and mankind to the original Paradise of God’s grand design. Ever since our Fall into Sin we have been living in a cursed world of cursed people. Under the curse, our lives are filled with physical and emotional pain and suffering. Under the reign of Sin, Death, and the Devil life on earth is wracked with loss and grief, sorrow and misery, frustration and despair, sickness and injury, broken relationships and dashed hopes, daily annoyances and irritations, and on and on. And it’s all my fault; my sin is the cause of the curse.
But there is Hope and Good News: God loved us like this: He sent His Son. The Son of God suffered and died in our place, ”becoming a curse for us.” ”Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us [Galatians 3:13].”
The promise of the final and permanent removal of the Curse is guaranteed by the shed blood of Jesus, the death of Christ. Every time we hear the Gospel, remember our Baptism, and receive the body and blood of Christ God shares with us His curseless life. At the same time as we are experiencing the effects of the curse we get to enjoy the blessings of redemption from the curse of sin. So, when life (and death) overwhelms, remember, ”this, too, shall pass.”
Another part of the promise is this: “His servants shall serve him.” This is not a command but a promise, for it is a joy and a blessing to serve the Lord by serving others. And this we will do, forever.