Divine Food For the Day Daily Devotional

TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022

TEXT: 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

35. But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?”

36. You fool! Every time you plant seed you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up and growing] unless it first dies.

37. The seed you sow is not the body (the plant) which it is going to become, but it is a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain.

38. But God gives it a body just as He planned, and to each kind of seed a body of its own [is given].

39. All flesh is not the same. There is one kind of humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

40. There are also heavenly bodies [sun, moon and stars] and earthly bodies [humans, animals, and plants], but the glory and beauty of the heavenly is one kind, and the glory of the earthly is another.

41. There is glory and beauty of the sun, another glory of the moon, and yet another [distinctive] glory of the stars; and one star differs from another in glory and brilliance.

42. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The [human] body that is sown is perishable and mortal, it is raised imperishable and immortal.

43. It is sown in dishonor, it is sown in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength;

44. It is sown a natural body [mortal, suited to earth], it is raised a spiritual body [immortal, suited to heaven]. As surely as there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45. So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].

46. However, the spiritual [the immortal life] is not first, but the physical [the mortal life] then the spiritual.

47. The first man [Adam] is from the earth, earthly [made of dust]; the second Man [Christ, the Lord] is from heaven.

48. As is the earthly man [the man of dust], so are those who are of earth; and as is the heavenly [Man], so are those who are of heaven.

49. Just as we have borne the image of the earthly [the man of dust], we will also bear the image of the heavenly [the Man of heaven].

50. Now I say this, believers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit nor be part of the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (mortal) inherit the imperishable (immortal).

(Amplified Holy Bible)

TOPIC: NEW BODY IS GIVEN AT RESURRECTION

Ignorance about the divine operation of life after death makes many to sill wonder how resurrection will be. Due to this ignorance, some ask: how are the dead raised up and with what body? Many fail to learn from how things planted into the earth grow.

Read again Paul’s lecture on the type of bodies different seeds and plants come up with as they germinate, which is a kind of resurrection (vs. 35-46). The seeds sown are like the present human bodies, natural and corrupt, but raised as spiritual bodies.

Jesus as Man, died with the physical body but raised as a spiritual body at resurrection (vs. 45-48). God gives new bodies to different classes of resurrected seeds. He gave us the first man, Adam, and afterwards gave us the new Adam – Christ.

In the same way, after we have finished with our physical bodies, God will give us a new and spiritual body (vs. 45-49). The body given at resurrection, being spiritual, lives forever and man will stand to give account of how he used the physical. Those who harbor the thought that after death, there is no judgment should have a rethink.

QUESTION: Are you waiting for your new and glorious body at resurrection?

PRAYER: Guide me, Oh Jehovah, to use my present body in righteousness and holiness as I anticipate the resurrection of the saints, in Jesus name, Amen.