QuickThoughts: Our Eternal Bodies

📘 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

2 Corinthians 5:5 LSB

My friends, whatever you may be going through, know this: if you have been purchased by the blood of Christ, you are secure in Him and may have rest.

One day, He will destroy your earthly body and build you a new, eternal, perfect, physical body. Just as Christ was given a glorified body at His resurrection, so to shall we! In fact, as Paul says, it is the very purpose for which we were created: to dwell with Him in perfect unity for all eternity!

If you have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you, it is a pledge, a promise from God Himself, that He will finish the good work He began in you. Fear neither pain nor death, for all we see is temporal, “but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor 4:18)! One day, we will have “a house not made with hands,” but an eternal building from God (2 Cor 5:1)!

📘 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:16 LSB