1 Corinthians 15:38, To Every Seed His Own Body

1 Corinthians 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

We cannot tell by looking at a seed the first time what the plant will look like and the fruit that the plant will bear. It is God, who by His wisdom, gave the plants and the herb yielding seeds, to be what it is. It is God, our blessed Creator, who does so, as the Apostle Paul writes, as it hath pleased him. 

So it is with the glorified body. He has deemed it fit to give us a body like that of our Lord Jesus Christ in the day of consummation. The Bible tells us that when we see Him, we shall be like Him. A most powerful truth that must encourage the heart of every child of God facing the weakness of the earthly body.

We are made in the image of God. And we reflect His glory by His attributes that we imbibed through His Word – love and joy and peace and patience and longsuffering and holiness…Amen.