The Transformer
What will it take to fix us?

Philippians 3: 20 & 21 “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”

To be a Christian means that you are an alien on this earth. We are citizens of another country: heaven. We are waiting for a Savior to come from our homeland to rescue us. A big part of that rescue will be that he will transform our bodies. He is the transformer and we will be the transformed. Our bodies will be like his glorious body. We now have a lowly body; then we will have a glorious body.

Our bodies have been made lowly not because of their original design nor construction, no, we have lowly bodies because of God’s curse on sin. Since we are only accustomed to living in these cursed bodies we have no idea really of the extent of the damage that sin caused. We can get a clue as to the extent of the damage by the effort it takes to fix us. The entire incarnation, life, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, ascension, and return of Christ Jesus is dedicated to our salvation. We are waiting for rescue.

The power to transform our bodies is described as “the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.” He has infinite power. He will subject everything to himself. Our transformation requires infinite recourses to complete.

Down the street from our church there are about three abandoned houses right together. Often I think that it is a shame to see these houses like this. They have been empty for twenty years or so. I think how it would be nice to buy a couple of them and rebuild a nice big house for my family. What would it take to actually do this? All told it would probably take two or three million dollars to build a very nice home there. It takes power to transform a small, dilapidated house into a beautiful, large, and comfortable home.

God has the capacity to subject all things to his will. He could transform every house on every property on the entire globe. He is the God of infinite capability. In Jesus Christ he displays his infinite capability and will transform the body of every believer of every generation that has ever lived.

I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to that day. What will it be like to be free from our lowly bodies? It will be even better than moving from a dilapidated abandoned shack to a gorgeous new home.