Scripture: Romans 6:23, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Philippians 3:21
“Even for God’s children death is a valley of shadows and darkness. But, as Richard Baxter put it, ‘Christ leads me through no darker rooms than he went through before.’ And in that darkness it’s not God but death that comes as a stranger. The one who stands beyond death will be the loving God for whom we have been longing all these years.”
Neil Plantinga
“My present body – ‘brother ass,’ as Fancis of Assisi would have me call it – is like a student’s old jalopy; care for it as I will, it goes precariously and never very well, and often lets me and my Master down (very frustrating!). But my new body will feel and behave like a Rolls-Royce, and then my service will no longer be spoiled.”
J.I. Packer
“In heaven I will be free to jump up, dance, kick, and do aerobics. If possible, somewhere, sometime before the party gets going, sometime before the guests are called to the banquet table at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, the first thing I plan to do on resurrected legs is to drop on grateful, glorified knees. I will quietly kneel at the feet of Jesus. The day is drawing near when I’ll be able to kneel again.”
Joni Erickson Tada
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