...And then it hit me!

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities

Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up! 

 

What is my topic for today… well it usually stems from a couple of places, something I have read or something I have meditated on… but this week something just hit me out of nowhere… yeah it was a 315 pound barbell…. and thats where we are going today! 

 

yes, its true this past week I was doing military press and not paying attention. I thought I had racked the weight and let it go (I do my military on the smith press due to limited shoulder mobility) I thought I had racked it over my head… uhm lets just say a big loud NO! So 315lbs comes a crashing down on just my left leg, upper top part of my quad. It sucked! I got up a few minutes later and tried to walk it off… Well a few days later I had a few people look at it. I have torn my Sartorius, my rectus famoris… I more then rectus I killed us… and my MCL. So I am off of lifting legs or racquet ball for about a month to 3 months… seeing how well it heals up. But it got me thinking about farming… GARDENING??? 

 

I don’t mind gardening… farming.. not so much. But in the past my wife and I had a really nice garden. We grew all kinds of stuff…. but never a body. I don’t mean we buried bodies… I mean we never planted a body expecting to grow more bodies… but guess what that is exactly what will happen to those of us who are followers of Christ. 

 

ARE YOU STILL LOST? Well when I hurt myself this time (and yes there have been many times) I thought to myself “if I wreck my car I can get a new one, If i break a guitar I can get a new one, If I lose a gun I can get a new one… but my body… man o man.”

But the truth is this- our body is a seed and we do get new ones.

 

1 Cor. 15:42

It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.

 

We don’t know much about our new bodies, we can glean a few things from Christ when he came back with his new body… We are not sure what age we come back as… maybe 33 like Jesus, or maybe at the age we died… now you might say that would suck if you died at 85 and your new body is 85. but you are missing the point. What we do know is that from Christ reappearance he was Whole, healthy, without sickness. He could transport himself anywhere, He was able to walk through walls and make himself undetected to those around him. There will never be a sprain, tear, cancer, zit or bad breath… We are made new.

The other thing we know about sowing and reaping is that we always get more than what we have sewn… a hundred fold or more. So in my body I get more of all that is good… and probably beyond what I can ever imagine and or even comprehend. So today take time to thank God as you look in the mirror at the seed… Thank him for the harvest, the body that will be 100 times better and more! 

Lets end on this…

 

But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.

He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.

Philippians 3:20-21