{"id":39063,"date":"2026-01-28T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39063"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:14:27","slug":"260129-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260129-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies Like Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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As you discover your place in God\u2019s plan, you make this wonderful discovery: you will graduate from this life into heaven. Jesus\u2019 plan is to \u201cgather together in one all things in Christ.\u201d \u201cAll things\u201d includes your body (Ephesians 1:10).<\/p>\n

God will reunite your body with your soul and create something unlike anything you have seen. An eternal body. You will finally be healthy. You never have been. Even on the days you felt fine, you weren\u2019t. You were a sitting duck for disease. \u00a0And what about you on your worst days? Don\u2019t you hate disease. I\u2019m sick of it. So is Christ.<\/p>\n

When Christ appears, Scripture tells us, \u201cwe shall be like him (1 John 3:2). You\u2019ll have a spiritual body, with all members cooperating toward one end. So we\u2019re not giving up. How could we? As God\u2019s story becomes our story, the best is yet to be.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0More to Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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As you discover your place in God\u2019s plan, you make this wonderful discovery: you will graduate from this life into heaven. Jesus\u2019 plan is to \u201cgather together in one all things in Christ.\u201d \u201cAll things\u201d includes your body (Ephesians 1:10).<\/p>\n

God will reunite your body with your soul and create something unlike anything you have seen. An eternal body. You will finally be healthy. You never have been. Even on the days you felt fine, you weren\u2019t. You were a sitting duck for disease. \u00a0And what about you on your worst days? Don\u2019t you hate disease. I\u2019m sick of it. So is Christ.<\/p>\n

When Christ appears, Scripture tells us, \u201cwe shall be like him (1 John 3:2). You\u2019ll have a spiritual body, with all members cooperating toward one end. So we\u2019re not giving up. How could we? As God\u2019s story becomes our story, the best is yet to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39067,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39063\/revisions\/39067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}