Tis morning my body clock says it is three am- I am in an airport, typing…. and. not feeling perfect. This body is frail, and after four hours walking …. Paul comforts us by saying this body is like a seed.

I For 15:35-41

35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.

We are told to look ahead. Our hope is in Christ.

This is why the church will say that we ought not doubt when c/ircumstances are against us and we despair. Among the Reformed, where there is no central authority, we should trust in the scripture. We do not know why, or what, the purpose of what happens to us is. But we know that it will be revealed.

The ressurection make our faith one of hope, not an expression of some vague, nice, ineffective spirituality that ameliorates our despair but is lacking any power. To save, to heal, or to ressurrect.