What Is
Raised Is Imperishable
So it is with the resurrection of the dead.
What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a
physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, “The first
man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the
spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is
from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as
is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the
image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:42-49
The bodies we now possess will age and we will
see physical decline, and ultimately death. But the resurrection of Jesus
Christ holds within it the promise of a new supernatural body raised in glory.
As life takes its course in the aging process,
we have the hope of a new body that will far outshine the original. Despite our
aches and pains, our destiny belongs safely in the hands of Jesus.
We are told that in the
twinkling of an eye,
we will be changed.
Our Daily
Bread
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