August 3. Why you have a body? For you were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body,

1 Corinthians 620. God did not create the physical material universe willy-nilly. He had a purpose,

namely, to add to the ways His glory is externalized and made manifest. The heavens declare

the glory of God and the sky above proclaims His handy work, Psalm 191. Our bodies fit into that same

category of physical things that God created for this reason. He is not going to back out on His

plan to glorify Himself through human beings and human bodies. Why does God go to all the trouble

to dirty His hands, as it were, with our decaying, thin-stained flesh in order to establish it

as a resurrection body and clothe it with glory and immortality? Answer?

Because His Son paid the price of death so that the Father's purpose for the material universe

would be fulfilled, namely, that He would be glorified in it, including in our bodies forever and ever.

That's what the text says. You were bought with a price, namely, the death of His Son,

so glorify God in your body. God will not disregard or dishonor the work of His Son.

God will honor the work of His Son by raising our bodies from the dead and we will use our

bodies to glorify Him forever and ever. That is why you have a body now.

And that is why it will be raised to be like Christ's glorious body.