What has captured my attention this week is this verse
written by the Apostle Paul. “For
now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred
reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes
we will see reality] face to face.
Now I know in part [just in fragments], but then I will know fully, just
as I have been fully known [by God]. 1 Corinthians 13:12
In college we would sculpt pieces of clay into an art piece…
we would then encase it in sections of plaster.
When the plaster dried we would open the plaster pieces and
take out the clay.
We would then put a sealer on the inside impression left in
the plaster by the clay sculpture.
Afterward we would put the plaster pieces together again
where we could pour a “liquefied medium” such as clay slip, plaster,
wax, cement, rubber latex and so on into the plaster mold.
When the medium hardened/cured inside the mold- we would open
the plaster pieces to reveal the art piece in its new material.
In a way we are like clay works of art encased in
plaster. God sculpts our
clay vessel. He seals it … and one day the clay vessel that will return to the
earth where soul will enter the everlasting body!
With the everlasting body God gives us, we will never know
what it means to be tired or out of breathe or sore. We will be able to run all day long and have more energy
then even a wild stallion could muster.
We won’t have to deal with getting sick, ill, old, hot or cold. There will be no need for spectacles,
medicines, special diets, genetic disorders in heaven. There will be no disabilities and no
handicap signs in heaven.
All will be new… and kept anew!
Our bodies of clay will be swallowed up by death but the new
bodies we receive in Jesus Christ will be swallowed up and clothed in life! (2
Corinthians 5:2, 5:4)
What we knew… what we matured in… what we spoke of… what
yielded to in Spirit… will no
longer have to share room with the earthly flesh but will be fully transformed-
as God has known.
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