Transformation!

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20-21

Welcome to May! A winter weekend at the end of April may have dampened spirits a bit, but the spring weather will return. So, with the big transformation on the horizon, shouldn't we get started? I'm fairly sure that I have the lowly body ready to go, so how do I start this transformation? We think we know, but do we really?

There are in the Bible several stories of Jesus after that first Easter morning. In them we find disciples having trouble recognizing their Lord. Those who had spent three years or more with Him, thought they knew Him by sight but then failed at times to know Him in that way. Mary the Magdalene thought her Lord was a groundskeeper. On the road to Emmaus, two disciples gave the Lord a bit of teasing for not knowing all the things that had happened concerning Himself. So, we think we know a transformation, but do we really?

If I showed up to work this morning transformed in the way we think of it, people would be surprised (no one more than me), but I would be recognized. However, it seems that if I showed up transformed in the way that our Lord was, the question would be: "Who are you?" And this question would come from those who had seen me almost daily for the past three years or so. My imagination falls short of what this transformation must be to make someone so familiar into a body that we would struggle to recognize. So maybe we don't know this coming transformation quite so well as we think. No wonder Paul writes that it is all in the Lord's hands according to what He can do.

Stand by for the transformation!
Bucky