ECWA Delicious Daily Manna For Today

THURSDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2023

TEXT: 1 Corinthians 15:42-53

42. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

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

44. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also spiritual body.

45. Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46. But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.

47. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

48. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.

49. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

50. What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

51. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed,

52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

53. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body put on immortality.

(New Revised Standard Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: MORTAL TO IMMORTALITY

Sin and the Fall brought death into human experience. God has, however, scheduled a resurrection, which will occur for both believers and unbelievers.

We notice in today’s text how Paul gives hope to believers by stating how certain changes would occur to their bodies. The body that is buried a natural one will not be raised the same – it will be changed completely. The old body will not be worked on or improved on. It will be changed completely!

No matter how you refurbish an old car, its name remains an old car. At the resurrection, our perishable, dishonored bodies will be raised in glory, weak bodies will be raised in power, natural bodies will be raised spiritual, mortal bodies will be raised immortal.

Paul says that this will happen in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye. This is a part of our theme’s mandate – occupy till I come. It is a part of what Christ will do when He comes. There are people who have not understood these realities.

And like typical old cars, when you fix this part, another part falls apart, so is their experience. Only Christ can fix us! Every human effort will fail.

QUESTION: Are you ready for the resurrection?

PRAYER: Dear Lord, I confess my lack of being conscious of the resurrection. Prepare me for it, in Jesus name, Amen.