But our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself (Philippians 3:20-21).
What is Jesus doing with all that power? That is, the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself?
This is the power that spoke the world into being. That calmed raging storms with a simple command and handled diseases and demons as if they were roaches under his feet.
This is the power that bore all the evil the world can marshal and burst forth from the grave with the keys to death and hell firmly in his grasp. What’s He doing with it now?Preparing.
Yes, preparing a place, but much more than that. He’s preparing place holders. He’s not just building mansions; He’s forming mansion dwellers.
He’s preparing to transform our humble, earthly bodies into conformity with the body of His glory. He is changing the hardest thing of all to change (as if God needed to measure which was hardest): fallen, broken humanity.
Have you had any reminders of brokenness lately? Think about it. Every evidence of physical or soul weakness – pain, sickness, failed vision, aging, failure, whatever – is a reminder of the glorious (literally) hope we have in a Savior who can subject even that to Himself.
He’s just that powerful. And there is never a time when He isn’t.
Paul says the last enemy to be destroyed is death. Our slow (or fast) march toward it is a declaration of this broken world’s last defense and defiance toward God. But we can worship a Christ who is greater even than the power of death, disease, and aging.
Lazarus was just a warmup. The widow’s son – an exhibition. But the real event is coming soon.
Powerfully.
What is worship? Your response to believing that all of God’s transforming power is ready for you – and that in His heart, you’re worth it.