Your Great Future!
"We shall all be changed—in a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet."
1 Corinthians 15: 51-52
In a 1923 book, The Resurrection Body, Wilbert W.
White
compared the resuscitation of Lazarus in John 11 with the
resurrection of Jesus. With Lazarus, the stone was rolled
away to let Lazarus out. With Christ, the stone was rolled
away to let people in to see the empty tomb.
When Lazarus rose, he struggled to walk in his shroud. Jesus
rose out of His shroud. “He sprang in His new, powerful, spiritual
body out of the wrappings, thus evidencing Him to be the Son of
God,” wrote White. Lazarus died again, but Jesus rose immune
from death.
“The resurrection body is not the body reanimated,” wrote White.
“It is not a mere return to life in the same corruptible, weak, fleshly,
natural body of the grave. It will be a body perfectly adapted to the
new order of nature in which it is to live. It will be an incorruptible
body.”
Our resurrection bodies will be like that of Christ, not of
Lazarus.Be encouraged today. We have a great future!
"How can we be sure that we shall one day have new
bodies like the glorified body of our Savior? We
can be sure because the Spirit lives within us."
Warren W. Wiersbe
