I wrote on Friday that I look forward to having a glorified body, one without pain or fatigue. And I seriously can’t wait.
The concept of earthly versus heavenly, natural versus spiritual, continues in today’s verses:
Such is the established order of Providence. We must have weak, frail, mortal bodies by descent from the first Adam, before we can have lively, spiritual, and immortal ones by the quickening power of the second. We must die before we can live to die no more. Yet if we are Christ's, true believers in him (for this whole discourse relates to the resurrection of the saints), it is as certain that we shall have spiritual bodies as it is now that we have natural or animal ones. By these we are as the first Adam, earthy, we bear his image; by those we shall be as the second Adam, have bodies like his own, heavenly, and so bear him image. And we are as certainly intended to bear the one as we have borne the other. As surely therefore as we have had natural bodies, we shall have spiritual ones. The dead in Christ shall not only rise, but shall rise thus gloriously changed. (Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible)Gloriously changed. Bearing the image of Christ.
One day. One day soon, I pray.
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