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It's one of the most powerful verses you could put

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on your church sign. Thanks for connecting

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with today and the word Moody Bible Institute's

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daily devotional, I'm Donna Leland.

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Consider the power of First Corinthians 1551.

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Today, in the word we read, we

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will not all sleep, but we will all

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be changed. But the change

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Paul is writing about is a biblical mystery.

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It's not unfathomable, but it's

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new information. This is

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the culmination of his answer to the question

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about how the dead were raised and what

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kind of body they possess. It's

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not an ordinary body of flesh and blood

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like the ones we have now. In verse

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50 he explains that flesh and

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blood cannot inherit the kingdom of

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God. Whatever the apostle

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means by this, he cannot be saying

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that we do not have bodies. Way

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back in the Old Testament, job testified

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about the certainty of his expectation

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to be resurrected. And after

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my skin has been destroyed, yet

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in my flesh I will see God.

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Job asserts, I myself

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will see him with my own eyes, I

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and not another. How my heart

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yearns within me. The

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believer's resurrection body will be

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suited for eternal life. God will

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replace our perishable bodies with ones

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like Christ's glorious body. Unlike

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ordinary flesh, which slowly decays,

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this transformation will be instantaneous.

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Verse 52 reveals that it will happen

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in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye.

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It will be a result of God's command and

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timing, signified by the

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sound of the trumpet. Won't

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that be awesome? We

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love thinking about the future, that we have

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the hope in Christ Jesus, his

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resurrection from the dead so that we

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can be resurrected as well.

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Thanks so much for joining us here at today

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in The Word.