<p>8:19&nbsp;<i>F</i><i>or the earnest expectation of the creation awaits the revealing of</i> <i>God's children</i>- This could imply that the believers aren&rsquo;t really revealed for who they are in this life. This shouldn&rsquo;t encourage our hypocrisy nor the idea that we can be a believer whose faith is invisible to the world; but it&rsquo;s some comfort too. Because we look, smell, speak and act identically, for the most part, to the unbelievers around us. The huge difference in status and position has to be perceived by faith alone in this life. This &ldquo;manifestation&rdquo; is the same word as used in 8:18, &ldquo;revealed&rdquo;- see notes on 8:18. The whole of creation is somehow looking forward to the revelation of the Christ that is within us. Christ, the spirit of Christ, is concealed deep within our flesh and will be manifested at the last day, even though we as it were feel the baby kicking, as Paul describes in Rom. 7:15-25 when he speaks of the two persons struggling within him. On a different scale, we are as it were concealed deep within the creation, as the seed, the germ, which will sprout forth into the full Kingdom of God when Christ returns. All that is material and fleshly, this present system, will no longer conceal the Christ within us personally, and on a global scale it will no longer conceal&nbsp;<i>us</i>, who we really are. This element of hiddenness explains why we simply cannot judge others. Here in this closing section of Romans 1-8 there also seems a connection of thought with the opening section of Romans 1-8, where Paul wrote of how the invisible things of God which were as it were hidden within creation are in some sense declared to those who know God (Rom. 1:20)&nbsp;</p>