Tues.’s Devo - Resurrected Bodies

Read: Job 12:1-15:35; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58; Psalm 39:1-13; Proverbs 21:30-31 Job sarcastically tells his friend that wisdom will die with them. Then he tells them that he knows some things also and that they are no better than him. You have to love his fighting spirit. He was confident that his disaster had come from the hand of the Lord. He proclaims that everything is in the hands of the Lord and all creation knows that. Job’s argument is that when God does something, there is nothing you can do to reverse it. No one can fight against God and win. Nothing he could do would get him out of the trouble he was in because it was God who put him there. Job accuses his friends of smearing him with lies and arguing God’s case against him. Job tells them to be quiet and leave him alone and let him face the consequences of his life. You have to admire Job’s defense of his walk with the Lord. He calls out to the Lord to visit him…just not scare him when he does. He begs for an audience with God and asks God to show him if he has done anything wrong. Eliphaz defends himself. He argues that a wise man wouldn’t talk like Job. He accused Job of having no fear of God and asks Job if he has a monopoly on wisdom. He asked how Job can say he is innocent when no man is innocent before God. In Corinthians Paul tried to put some common sense into the people. They were getting baptized for the dead and yet they questioned if there was a resurrection. Paul explained that that didn’t make sense. The reason Paul was not afraid of death and spent his life living for Jesus was the hope of the resurrection. The people were asking what kind of body would they have in the resurrection and Paul explained that these bodies were just seeds. They go into the ground and die and the new body is much better than the seed. It is just like a flower which is much more beautiful than the seed. Their new bodies will be glorious spiritual bodies. Adam was the first man and he was made from dust. Jesus, the second man was made from heaven. We are now like Adam but we will be like Christ when we rise. So Paul encouraged us to work enthusiastically for the Lord because nothing we do for the Lord is ever useless. Lord, remind us that we are only a traveler passing through. May our lives bring you glory.