Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry. (2 Timothy 4:2-5)

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Friday in Easter Week

I Corinthians 15:51-58

 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Why does any of this matter?  Why does it matter what our bodies will be like, or really if there is any resurrection at all?

It matters immensely because it gives us assurance that we do not labor in vain.  Because we will be resurrected with Christ, we do not live our lives merely waiting for death.  Because we will rise to a human body and a human existence that is a once infinitely different and yet very much the same, we can know that what we do in this life matters.  Whatever is good now will put on the imperishable and remain for eternity.  So we also do not live our lives merely waiting for the next life.

Our eternal lives are now.  Yes, at death or at the last trumpet we will be changed, but even now we live that abundant life which Christ promised.

If we all lived that way, what a difference there would be in the church and in the world!
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)