“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” Phil 3:20-21
At the culmination of Jesus ministry he accomplished in three days what we benefit from for eternity. Jesus took that which was vile, frail, defiled and mortal and fashioned into a glorious reflection of his image. In the Greek it reads “the body of our humility.” And yet we labor in gyms and diet on scientifically engineered programs to shape and tone the body that offers an appealing physical appearance, but the man itself is vile. Jesus by his death and burial illustrated our death in corruption, but he also magnified our promise of in-corruption through his resurrection (1 Cor 15:42). We can labor as we will for a lifetime but we’ll never achieve the promised “glorious body” as it is now in heaven and illustrated by his transfiguration. Try to perfect all you want, but know and hold on to the promise that when he comes will raise the dead first, and put such a “glory” on our bodies as is on his own (1 Tim 4:16), and bring us to himself, that where he is we may be also (Jn 14:3)!
You claim you can never achieve glorious perfection? Jesus responds: over my dead body!
HSAY… Todd
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