Dying Bodies, Renewed Spirits

Day 243: 2 Corinthians 4:13-18, 5:1-10

“Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.” - 2 Corinthians 4:16 NLT

I will never forget the sweet voice of one of our 90-year-old church members as she joined the group filing out of the sanctuary. She said, “Andrew, I know I’m old, but why don’t I feel old?”

I genuinely believe that the verse above is the answer to her question. Her lifetime of allowing Jesus to “renew” her inner life had resulted in a vitality she could feel every day.

The choice is ours. Jesus has already taken His stand. He longs to grow us more and more — for us to extend the same offer to others. Let's be honest; it's hard not to put all of our focus on what we can see and measure with analytics. There is not a spreadsheet big enough to contain the metrics Jesus produces with the entirety of who He is and what He has in store for us during this life and into an eternal one.

Knofel Staton said it well, “Paul ended this chapter the way he began it, ‘We do not lose heart.’ Paul had the right perspective on life.”

Let God take you up today in His arms and give you a bigger perspective right now. We will one day be raised with Christ. We will one day “slip into new bodies.”

What now?

It is time to go hard. It is time to be renewed and offer the same transformation to everyone we meet.