Then Shalt Thou Come to the King

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God – Job 19:26

Concerning this very body, there is no decree of annihilation. It will smoulder away. It may be taken up by the spade of the careless sexton, and scattered to the winds of heaven may all the atoms of the body be. But there is a life-germ within it which no human power can destroy, and over which the divine eye perpetually watches; and when that mysterious and long-expected sound of the angelic trump shall ring o’er land and sea, through heaven and earth, and the graves shall all be opened, then shall my soul find my body yet again-fashioned after a more beautiful form; more fit for the spirit than aforetime; more elastic; altogether free from weakness; no longer such as shall be subject to pain, to sickness, to accident, to decay, to ultimate corruption; but a spiritual body, raised in power, in glory, and in immortality; not raised in the likeness of the first Adam in the garden, but in the likeness of the second Adam in the everlasting Paradise of God. Courage, my eyes, courage! Ye shall be closed for a while, but ye shall not be so for ever, for ye, even ye, shall strike the strings of those celestial harps that pour forth His praise. Courage, all ye members of my body, which have been sanctified to be members of Christ, and made to be parts of the Holy Spirit’s temple! Ye shall all take your part in the grand triumphal entry of Christ, when He shall descend to take possession of His kingdom. “Though worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall behold for myself, and not another.” So go to thy bed in the earth, poor body, and sleep there awhile. Bathe thyself like her who bathed herself in spices to make herself ready for the King, so go and get thyself prepared to meet thy Lord. Put off thy work-day dress, and put on thy Sabbath garments, thy bridal array, and then shalt thou come to the King and see Him in His beauty…Yea, because He lives in the body which He bore, this body shall live again, also. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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