🎉Only 3 days until Easter!🌟
Easter advent post #25
Here’s a cool thought for Holy Week, as we draw near to Resurrection Sunday: contrary to common belief, our physical bodies are *not* temporary and disposable.
🌱Think about the idea of planting, or sowing, as Paul says in this passage. When you imagine a seed, or when you hold an acorn in your hand, what ideas does it conjure?
Hope.
Potential.
Transformation!
A tiny glimpse of what’s to come.
…and so it is with our physical bodies!
Sadly (as we’ve explored before in these posts), the prevailing notion today, which is much more Platonic than biblical, is that when we die, our bodies get destroyed, while our souls live on for all eternity.
As you might well imagine, believing this has implications—not just for the future, but for the here and now too.
A couple years ago, Luana and I found out that one of our cars was totaled. The insurance company told us it would make more sense to dispose of it and get a new one. The poor car still ran fine, but it was bound for the scrap yard.
And that’s how we tend to think about our bodies, isn’t it?
We think these physical frames we have are so sinful, broken, and temporary that we look forward to getting rid of them and living on as souls, detached from our bodies. The “true you” is your soul, we think. Your body is like a plastic water bottle, or a candy wrapper—the good stuff is on the inside.
But, incredibly, nowhere in scripture does it say our souls leave our body and go on to heaven forever.
If you believe in Jesus, your ultimate eternal destination is not a disembodied soul in heaven—bur rather here, in your resurrected body, in the restored / redeemed earth (Revelation 21-22).
We are all going to be raised! What a phenomenal hope that is. May we not be like the Sadducees, or Plato, who didn’t believe in a resurrection.
Your body is a seed. It’s not trash, nor is it a temporary container. You don’t sow trash; you don’t plant garbage.
Your body has a future, just like an acorn (and unlike a plastic bottle or candy wrapper).
We should treat and think of our bodies as creations of the Lord—broken, yes, but temples nonetheless. His handiwork. With a glorious future.
Our bodies will be sown…and then raised / resurrected!
Happy Holy Week, everyone!