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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Sunday, April 02, 2017
Today's Passage : Subject:The Resurrection of the Dead [4] Bible Verse:1 Corinthians 15:35-41 (ESV) "But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory." Message:
Apparently, someone has attacked the idea of human resurrection by asking about what kind of body the resurrected would have; Paul's response shows that the question is not an honest one, but a sarcastic one. But it is also an honest question that we might wonder about.
To discuss our physical form after the resurrection, he uses an analogy: a farmer planting a seed. It appears to die and disappears from our sight, but from it comes a new form. It isn't a perfect analogy, but the idea is not hard to grasp. We see a caterpiller become a pupa, seeming to be a dead, inanimate piece of trash; and then, one day, a butterfuly emerges.
Paul doesn't really answer the question here, though; possibly he doesn't know. Jesus, we know, appeared to be as he was before he died — remember, Thomas put his finger into the wound in Jesus' side — but he was likely to be a special case.
The gist of what Paul says here, is not to worry about it. Our form when we are resurrected will be better and more glorious than the form we have as humans. Change is unsettling or even frightening, especially when we don't know what the change will bring, but we must trust in God.
Meditation : Prayer : May the God of peace, who declared victory over death by the resurrection of His only Son, Jesus Christ, make me perfect in every thought and act through His grace, that my life might be pleasing in his sight and that I might share the perfect peace that is only possible through Him, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. |
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