I am totally dependent on HIM

I am thankful to learn lessons from nature. I learn that bare kernels of grain sown in the ground do not germinate and become plants unless they first ‘die’ So too my old nature must die before God’s new life can germinate in me. We are perishable, but God will raise us to be imperishable. We are dishonorable, but God will raise us up in glory. We are weak, but God will raise us in power. We are sustained by nature, but God will raise us to be sustained by your spirit. We live in total dependence on God!

1 Corinthians 15:35-46

But someone may ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come? How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendour of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendour of the earthly bodies is another. The sun has one kind of splendour, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendour. So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.

(0362) 13 Oct 2007