the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
1 Corinthians 15:35-50
What will the new body with which the believer will be clothed in glory look like? (v. 35). The Bible never satisfies our curiosity. "Thou fool . ." it replies to every effort of our imagination. If I show you an unknown seed, you cannot tell me what kind of plant will come from it. In the same way, in an unattractive, lack-lustre caterpillar, there is nothing to make you imagine the butterfly which will later emerge in all its glorious colours.
But for the tiny miracles of germination and metamorphosis to take place, the death of the seed and the sleep of the chrysalis are necessary (cf. John 12:24). In the same way the redeemed soul who has "fallen asleep" will appear clothed with a resurrection body. What a fantastic future is prepared for this body of dust, the mere envelope of the soul! It is raised "in incorruption": death no longer has power over it; " in glory" and "in power": no longer subject to sickness or weakness; "a spiritual body": finally set free from the flesh and its desires, the perfect instrument of the Holy Spirit. Last of all it will be like the body of the risen Christ.
Have we not already received in this passage enough precious teaching on our future state . . . and reasons for glorifying God even now in our bodies (1 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 6:20)?
