“And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.”
There’s a song with the lyrics, ‘Because He lives I can face tomorrow, because He lives all fear is gone. Because I know He holds the future, life is worth the living just because He lives.’ Jesus’ resurrection is what gives our lives purpose and meaning. And this is incredible: the same Spirit who raised Him from the dead, lives inside us and makes us alive to God. It’s hard to comprehend the power needed to raise a person from the dead. Yet that power is at work in us, transforming us into the image of Christ, day by day. This transformation gives us great hope for what is to come. As we see the difference between Jesus’ physical body and His resurrection body: no longer subject to pain, suffering, ageing etc., yet able to touch, see, smell, eat; this is what we can look forward to as well. One day our bodies will also be transformed, and we will be given bodies like His (1 John 3:2, 1 Cor. 15:49). Our present bodies are suited to the earth, and like the earth, will decay. Our resurrection bodies will be suited to heaven – spiritual, eternal and immortal. Until then, the presence of the Spirit within us is a constant reminder of what we look forward to.
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