"WE SHALL BE CHANGED!"

1 Corinthians 15:50-58            (ESV)
"50 I tell you this, brothers: FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and WE SHALL BE CHANGED.
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain."


My morality becomes more evident to me with every passing day.  Only this morning was I reading a story about a police officer who gave his earthly life in the line of duty recently.  His mother was quoted as saying "I wasn’t surprised when he went into police work. He was very caring, just a caring person."  For someone to "Serve and Protect" in the field of law enforcement, their family must accept the possibility that every day they leave their home may be their last.

In his first letter to the church at Corinth, the Apostle Paul explained as well as I have heard it put.  Our skin and bones are temporal!  But our Spirit's will last for an eternity.  Why then, do we seem to emphasize the things that have no bearing on eternity and apparently ignore the everlasting?  How many obituaries do you read of a missionary who was used to spread the gospel to souls in a foreign country?  But you let a politician, or a movie actor, a popular musician go to their eternal reward, and it is as if the world pauses?

The "sting of death" was overcome by our LORD JESUS CHRIST on Calvary.  Yet, it seems we only want to remember HIS sacrifice when a holiday or gift giving comes about.  Everyday should be a remembrance of what HE has done for us!  Every breath we take should be a testament for HIM and the price HE paid for my sin.

"WE SHALL BE CHANGED" is not a prognostication.  It is not a hope-so maybe-so occurrence.  "This mortal body must put on immortality" is not to be taken as fantasy.  "WE SHALL BE CHANGED" is coming SOON to a theater near you!  I pray you have not been fooled by the great deceiver and are caught unaware.  The day is coming when "WE SHALL BE CHANGED"!!!!