Signs of hope spring to new life.
Signs of hope behind fences
Signs of hope in the crowded masses
Signs of hope with one single friend
Signs of hope dazzling the senses
All offer hope and promise of new life,
coming from inside a seemingly dead bulb
buried in the cold frozen ground.
And then they burst forth...Resurrection!
Dallas Willard in his book The Divine Conspiracy speaks in a similar way about our own resurrection. "He will metamorphose our humiliating body, transforming it into a glory body like his, utilizing the power he has to make all things do what he wants (Phil 3:20-21). When we pass through "death" into God's full world our "our earthy tent is torn down," as Paul elsewhere says we are not thereby deprived of a body, any more than Jesus himself was. Rather, we are then "clothed with a dwelling place of the heavenly sort" (2 Cori. 5:1-8). The mortal part of us is swallowed up by life." God has prepared us for this by depositing in us a "down payment" in the form of the Spirit (v. 5). We know even now, and by experience, the reality of a life that is not of the physical body."
We have promises of this New Life all around us.
Who has eyes to see?
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