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| Extreme Makeover |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
Tired of how you look? Hate that crooked nose? The beady eyes? Hate that you can't afford plastic surgery? Frustrated that, for the most part, you'll look like this until you die?
Well, for starters, God made you how you look, so it shouldn't matter how you fit in. "But God gives [you] a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body." (1 Cor 15:38-39) But even if God didn't make you handsome or beautiful, He doesn't care about that anyway -- and neither should you, the Bible says. Your outer man is corrupted and decaying, and God's far more concerned about giving the inner you a complete makeover. For now you're just living in a temporary shell, warts and all. Your body is just the luggage that gets you from birth to death.
I used to think that when God raises you from the dead you'll look exactly the same, and so we should show great respect to it, even at death. But that doesn't seem to be the case. The Bible clearly teaches that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven" (1 Corinthians 15:50), and that the body is "sown a natural body and raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body" (15:44) What God raises from the dead will look very little like what you're walking around in now.
So why worry so much about what you can't take with you? God's makeover will be extreme. When He raises you from the dead -- or transforms you if you're alive when He returns -- you will look quite different. Proof of this is when Jesus rose from the dead. Mary Magdalene stared right at Him and didn't recognize Him. She thought He might be the gardener. When He walked with some disciples along the road to Emmaus they had no clue who He was. Why? Because His raised body was not the same as what He had been born with. It was quite different.
This will happen to you too. At death you'll get the surgery you always wanted. Your whole body will decay back into dust, and God will raise it up as a new creation....a spiritual body of some sort. "And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man." (1 Cor 15:49)
I'm guessing that if you're not happy with your body now, you'll be very happy with it then! Meanwhile, put a little more effort into making-over the inner you instead of the the outer you that's going to rot and disappear.
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posted by Alan @ 10:50 AM   |
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God does not give me TIME enough to worry about how I look. If someone does not like the way I look, it is not my problem, it is his/her problem. Your are correct. In the long run, worrying about how we look is a foolish waste of time because we will end up looking quite different.
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God does not give me TIME enough to worry about how I look. If someone does not like the way I look, it is not my problem, it is his/her problem. Your are correct. In the long run, worrying about how we look is a foolish waste of time because we will end up looking quite different.