the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
I know that my redeemer liveth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Job 19:25-26. The Lord Jesus Christ shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. Philippians 3:20-21
Even Job knew that the Redeemer lives. He looked with a lively hope into the future, looked beyond death and the grave into a life in which, after the reunion of soul and body, we shall appear before the face of God. With what confidence this champion of faith spoke, even before God had revealed Himself on Sinai and before the light had shone forth on Golgotha! Why do we Christians tremble at the separation of body and soul? For death is nothing but a separation, after which soul and body shall be eternally and gloriously reunited. The seed of the body must fall into the earth, that it may arise glorious, living, and forever immortal. The glorified body of Christ is a beautiful type, according to which He will transfigure and glorify our bodies. Who should not willingly put off the defiled garment of the flesh to be clothed upon with a new, glorious, and Christ-like body?
I know that my Redeemer lives!
What comfort this sweet sentence gives!
He lives, He lives, who once was dead,
He lives, my everlasting Head.
He lives to bless me with His love.
He lives to plead for me above.
He lives my hungry soul to feed,
He lives to help in time of need.
