A New Body
A New Body
As for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain. (1 Cor. 15:37)
The Seed
When you die, your earthly body is like a seed planted in the ground. The seed doesn’t look like the fruit it will produce, but you can’t get the fruit without the seed. If you want pumpkins, you don’t plant watermelon seeds. If you want oak trees, you plant an acorn. An acorn doesn’t look like an oak tree, yet it contains a forest of oak trees within its humble shell. It’s the same with your physical body—what you plant is not what will emerge, and that’s something to look forward to!
The Tree
As a believer, when you are resurrected from the dead, it will be you who comes up out of the grave, but you won’t have the body you have today or the one that eventually dies with you in it. It will still be you, of course, but it will be a whole new you, vastly improved by God.
Think of it this way: you are to your resurrected body what an acorn is to an oak tree. Today you’re just a tiny acorn, but when resurrected, you will be a mighty oak tree. It will be a radical change! The encouraging truth is that God is going to transform you in ways that are scarcely imaginable right now. And when it happens, you won’t wish for your old body back with all its weaknesses and limitations. Not for one second. The new will be much better!
Bottom Line
Allow the promise of a new, resurrected body to give you hope today. What a great promise!