1 Corinthians 15:35-43 NRSV
"But someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?' Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.

"So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body." NRSV

I can't wait for heaven!

Yesterday was just a horrible day. Do you ever have days like that? Everything that could go wrong, did. On top of it, I just didn't seem to have the emotional or physical energy to meet any of it. It was a day full of "stuff" and by the end, I was glad the day was over.

I remember walking down the stairs, thinking, "Heaven's got to be better than this" (and wishing that heaven was coming soon!).

I think that, as Christians, we often get our minds off what's important, what's really real, what's ahead. We are so concerned about the minutiae that permeates this life that we become the "overwhelmed" rather than the "overcomers." We forget that the victory in this life isn't victory over this life but victory from this life. Sometimes in this life, we will lose. There's nothing we can do. We will be accused of things we haven't done; even convicted (whether legally or emotionally) by those who are more concerned about their own agendas than the truth.

That doesn't change the fact that we have victory. Our victory was secured by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, our Christ. And that victory is experienced through death.

"What is sown is perishable. What is raised is imperishable."

How I long for the imperishable, for the day when I can see my Savior face to face, when I can put down the burdens of this life and take up the worship and joy of heaven.

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