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“You foolish person!  What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.”   1 Corinthians 15:36 (ESV)

When I read a passage like this I typically find myself thinking, “Those poor ignorant, selfish, evil people, thank God I’m not” ... but this week I am.  Paul tells me I’m foolish not to recognize what is right in front of me.   Bodily resurrection is not the reanimation of dead corpses but rather the transformation of perishable bodies.  I don’t deny the bodily resurrection, but I often fail to recognize and appreciate the evidence of transformation and resurrection around me.  

The God that transforms seeds into plants and brings life to all creation certainly has the power to resurrect a body.  All who have accepted Christ as Lord show evidence of and have a desire to pursue this transformation.   God resurrected the life of a persecutor of Christians transforming him into an apostle and a prolific writer of much of the New Testament.  God chose a teenage girl and an infant born in a stable as the seeds for His redemptive plan to save the world.  

As I reflect on the inconceivable creativity and awesome glory of the works of the Lord, the evidence overwhelms.  Hallelujah! 

Merry Christmas Bridge Family!  

-Todd Plummer