(This devotional is in light of my awareness of my balding head…:))

For Christians, death is an exchange. It’s exchanging this old body with a new body spectacularly better! A major upgrade.

Imagine you bought a pair of cheap gloves from Walmart. You’ve worn them for a week and they are already ruined. So, you go in to exchange them. All of sudden lights flash and a camera crew is there to film you exchanging your gloves. Walmart is promoting its customer service. And the CEO of Walmart is there to personally hand you the new gloves in exchange, and the new gloves are diamond studded (Michael Jackson style) and worth millions!

“It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.” 1 cor. 15:43-44

It almost makes you look forward to death, doesn’t it? How beautiful we will be is unimaginable. You and I have never seen anything imperishable, which the Bible says our bodies will be. It likens it to comparing seeds to the full grown trees. What resemblance do seeds have with trees? Have you ever seen a beautiful seed??? (I haven’t) Yet, even the most physically beautiful person on earth is a plain-looking seed. And that seed must be sown in order for the beautiful tree to come.

No wonder C.S. Lewis said, “Remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship…”

Have you seen something so beautiful it took your breath away and your heart skipped a beat? That will be you one day!

But why? How? What have we done to deserve this?

Nothing.

Jesus went through the hellish ugliness of the cross and its crudity so that you and I may be beautiful and imperishable.

He is beautiful. We will just be His reflections…

PH