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 to subdue all things unto himself (Phil. 3:20, 21).
Sickness, physical disabilities, the burdens of age come upon us, and then we know that this body is indeed "the body of our humiliation," as one translation puts it. In the body, temptations of the flesh afflict us, and we know that the word "vile" in not too strong. Our bodies humble us; they link us even with the dust. But our Savior has promised to change it all.
The apostle Paul says that our conversation, our citizenship, is in heaven, from whence we look for our Savior to appear. A day of change is coming--no more aching brows, swollen limbs, failing hearts. It is coming--the day of immortal youth, when even these bodies of ours shall suddenly be changed, "like unto his glorious body." What a promise! What a hope!
An old English soldier was relating how one of his companions had lost both legs in the Crimean War. The day came when the soldiers were to appear before the queen for their medals. "Someone pinned one on me," said the soldier, "but when the queen saw the legless man being carried on a stretcher, she took his medal in her own hands and pinned it on him, exclaiming, 'My brave soldier! My brave soldier!' As she bent over him, her tears fell upon his face. My friend never mentioned the medal afterward, but he would always say, 'Boys, I looked into the face of the queen, and that was reward enough for me.' " And so it will be with God's children when they look into the face of their Savior. Then "we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee" (Ps. 145:10).
Sickness, physical disabilities, the burdens of age come upon us, and then we know that this body is indeed "the body of our humiliation," as one translation puts it. In the body, temptations of the flesh afflict us, and we know that the word "vile" in not too strong. Our bodies humble us; they link us even with the dust. But our Savior has promised to change it all.
The apostle Paul says that our conversation, our citizenship, is in heaven, from whence we look for our Savior to appear. A day of change is coming--no more aching brows, swollen limbs, failing hearts. It is coming--the day of immortal youth, when even these bodies of ours shall suddenly be changed, "like unto his glorious body." What a promise! What a hope!
An old English soldier was relating how one of his companions had lost both legs in the Crimean War. The day came when the soldiers were to appear before the queen for their medals. "Someone pinned one on me," said the soldier, "but when the queen saw the legless man being carried on a stretcher, she took his medal in her own hands and pinned it on him, exclaiming, 'My brave soldier! My brave soldier!' As she bent over him, her tears fell upon his face. My friend never mentioned the medal afterward, but he would always say, 'Boys, I looked into the face of the queen, and that was reward enough for me.' " And so it will be with God's children when they look into the face of their Savior. Then "we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee" (Ps. 145:10).
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