+DEV+ T - Translation

Date: October 5, 2009 10:21 PM
Topic: +DEV+ T - Translation

T - Translation

"When he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure." (1 John 3:2-3)
Scripture Focus: 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

What do Enoch and Elijah have in common? They were "translated" in physical bodies from earth to heaven without dying in the process.

Believers live between two translation events. We have been translated spiritually from Satan's kingdom into God's. "He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13-14).

We shall also one day be translated physically from earth to heaven. "We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

Whether by rapture or by resurrection, our mortality will be translated into immortality as death is "swallowed up in victory" (vs. 54).
What are we to do in the interim? Paul answers in the same passage, "Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain" (vs. 58).

Insight: Ask the Lord to make you steadfast in your desire to please Him in all your ways today, abounding in your loving service to Him.

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