OUR SPIRITUAL BODY – DEVOTIONAL
Howdy Friends! “But what is the resurrection like?” The boy asked, he pushed dirt with a stubby stick onto a pile between his feet.
Grandpop leaned forward, dragged his boot toe through the dust. “The eternal life?” He asked the boy. “Well, there is a passage in the Bible that might help.”
He could see the boy was curious, but maybe not ready for a Bible verse. So he pointed to the flower bed. “Have a look at those zinnias there all tall and full of colors, yellow, red, orange. Pretty huh?” The boy nodded.
“The Bible, God’s word, explains it this way,” Grandpop continued. “ There is the earthly body, and the spiritual body. Think of our earthly body as the seeds of those big beautiful zinnias. Remember when we started that bed, stuck those tiny black little specks of seeds in the dirt?”
The boy nodded again.
“That’s our earthly body, and then, the spiritual body takes root, sprouts, grows and blooms in glorious colors. It’s us, we can’t imagine how, but that’s us. As different as those seeds from those beautiful blooms, but that’s how The Almighty works it for us. The beauty of the heavenly body is different from the earthly one, just as different as those seeds and big, beautiful, blooming zinnias there.” Grandpop put his hand on the boy’s shoulder and led him.
Together they walked to the flower bed and watched the butterflies there. ~ Gitty Up, Dutch.
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Bible Verse – 1 Corinthians 15:40 – 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.
Bible Verse – 2 Corinthians 4:17 -“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
Bible Verse – 1 Corinthians 15:42 – So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
Bible Verse – Acts 7:55-56 – But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
Bible Verse – 2 Timothy 4:7-8 – I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
Bible Verse – 1 John 3:2 – Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Bible Verse – Philippians 3:20-21-20 – But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
