--WHEN WE DIE ON THIS EARTH---- ~

--What Happens to our decaying bodies we now live in?

--GROANING IN THE TENT~~

-"He will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body." Phil 3:21

--IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, you're asking this question now: "Come on, Paul can you give us just a hint? Tell us a little more about our new bodies. "He will transform these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body." (Philippians 3:21 TJB)

Apparently he knew we would ask, for the apostle stayed on the subject for a few more paragraphs in 1 Corinthians 15 and provides one final point: you may not be able to envision it, but one things for sure; you are going to love your new body.

Paul outlines three ways God will transform your body. Your body will be changed from:
1) Corruption to incorruption--/ "The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption" (v.42 NKJV).

2) Dishonor to glory--"It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory" (v.43 NKJV).

3) Weakness to power--"It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power" (v.43 NKJV).

-Corruption. Dishonor. Weakness. Three unflattering words are used to describe our bodies. But who would argue with them?

~~ The promise is your body will be changed.

You will not receive a different body; you will receive a renewed body. Just as God can make an oak out of a kernel or a tulip out of a bulb, He makes a 'new' body out of the old one. A body without corruption. A body without weakness. A body without dishonor. A body identical to the body of Jesus! ~~

-MY FRIEND Joni Eareckson Tada was rendered a quadriplegic by a teenage diving accident, and her last four decades have been spent in discomfort. She, more than most, knows the hope of a resurrected body in heaven.

--Listen to her words:
"Somewhere in my broken, paralyzed body is the seed of what I shall become." ---- /-----
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-Beyond Heaven's Door/ML
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"THE paralysis makes what I am to become all the more grand when you contrast atrophied, useless legs against splendorous resurrected legs. I'm convinced that if there are mirrors in heaven (and why not?), the image I'll see will be unmistakably 'Joni' although a much better, brighter Joni. So much so, that it's not worth comparing....I will bear the likeness of Jesus, the Man from Heaven." ~~~
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