Thoughts for another day

Aug. 3, 2007

Today's verse: 1 Cor. 15:49. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Here is a tremendous statement in God’s Word about the guarantee that we will move toward incorruption from the element of our current bodies, which are subject to corruption. We may not get the full import of this statement but let me say that this is an important aspect of the belief we have in Jesus as our Savior. This belief allows us to be like Him and to wear an immortal garment like His: resplendent and shining like a robe of diamonds.

My friend, what we have in this world is going to be left behind by us. There is nothing we will carry into the next. Even all the cares and worries we nursed here and which occupied top of mind in us, we will realize, were mere figments of our imagination wrought while we walked the earth. Free of all our baggage, as we tread eternity, what garment are we going to wear? Heavenly, or earthly? There are many who may tell me, ‘But brother we have no idea of how the next will be.’ I may say that the Bible gives a clue to that, when Jesus talks about the wedding feast and the man who comes in as a guest without a wedding garment, we read what the king does with this man.

So we know that there is need of the festal garment before the throne. If our belief has imaged that Jesus is our Savior, then rest assured we will bear the image of Jesus in our bodies - that is the garb of resplendence which He has provided through His sacrifice before the Father on Calvary. And with it there is none to stop us going into the room Jesus Himself has prepared for us in His Father’s mansion. What a privilege. Imagine the exalted status we will bear…and what is required of us to get into this exalted position, just belief. And belief will help us shed the earthly robe, conceived in sin and move towards the heavenly, which Jesus wore. Praised be the Name of the Lamb of God.