Body promise

Your body has promise.  A promise to be made new.  A total transformation, Jesus style. 

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. (Philippians 3:20, 21 ESV)

Make no mistake. The aim of our lives with faith in Christ is heaven.  We are made for it.  We are called to it.  We are destined for it in Christ.  Jesus is coming back for the church.  This is something the New Testament tells us again and again.

I don't know about you but I hate my body.  It's like my house.  As soon as I get one thing taken care of, another thing falls apart.  It's a never ending cycle of disappointment.   And I'm very healthy!!!

There is a problem with our bodies.  They are decomposing and showing signs of the end, every day.  You don't realize how good you had it till it's gone.  

But there's a promise from Jesus.  Not just for eternal life but for a new body just like His glorious body.  I think about what that means and it blows my mind. I cannot conceive it.   But it will be real, tangible and physical.  And we await the ultimate makeover of our loves... In Christ.

The chapter division is bad here.  Because what Paul builds at the end of chapter three he caps off in chapter four.  

Staying:

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. (Philippians 4:1 ESV)

PRAYER:

Father help me keeps eyes on heaven.  I'm so distracted by the things of this Earth.  You have made us a promise.  Yes and amen it is in Christ Jesus.