Christ’s Subduing Power Will Be Manifested - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

We await the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to His body of glory, according to the working of the power which He has even to subdue all things to Himself.
Philippians 3:20-21

Christ's Subduing Power Will Be Manifested
The thoughts of God and of Christ in heaven, as they flow into us, make manifest to us an awful contrast between them and what we find in ourselves. But how sweetly, in all that reminds us of what even these bodies of ours are, we are also reminded of the love which will change and fashion them according to His own glorious body!

In what dress am I to appear in His presence? In one fashioned like His own! The thought of a human body becoming an immortal and incorruptible body is feeble compared with this being fashioned like His own glorious body. He might have given incorruptibility, but not this, the being like Him. What a thought! This Christ soon coming to make me like Himself!

What do you think of having bodies like His? How it brings the heart to heaven where that body is—a human, though a glorious body. How sweet the association, with Him and like Him, when we "see Him as He is."

Till He comes it is a blessed thing to be able to say we have naught to think of and to seek for but heavenly things: "Ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God." All worldliness consists in some plan for self, something to see attractiveness in for self down here; but is our plan looking for Christ to come?

When He comes, it will be not only to lead us into heaven, but to come with subduing power with regard to the things which cause groaning. He has poured life into my soul, but this body has got death in it still, and He will change it according to the working of that power whereby He is able to subdue all things to Himself.

G. V. Wigram