Does the resurrection make you afraid? - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

There are celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies, but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
1 Corinthians 15: 40 - 43.

Does the resurrection make you afraid?
"There is one thing that I just cannot accept: it is the resurrection. How can you expect a body destined to decomposition or reduced to cinders to break free one day as a new body indwelt by the same person? That seems to me complete nonsense."

"You fool! That is precisely what the Bible calls someone who asks such questions. Explain to me how from a cocoon enclosing a repulsive caterpillar, after being dead for some weeks, a superb butterfly can emerge. The same insect! Do you understand that? I don't!"

This tiny miracle is repeated before our eyes countless times every spring and is a testimony to the genius of the One who conceived this unbelievable metamorphosis. Is that a problem for the One who, I know, has stored my entire genetic programme in thousands of millions of cells in my body? Is it a problem for the body to be restored in a new condition and in another universe free from sin and death?

"I'll tell you why you have such difficulty in accepting the resurrection. It implies a life beyond the grave, and that is what causes your fear, and rightly so. You will one day have to account for your life to the Creator, who today is offering to be your Saviour."

Today‘s reading: 2 Kings 20: 12 - 21 · 3 John 1 - 8