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Ultimate Healing

Resurrection from the dead is the “ultimate healing.” 

Every true Christian has been imbued with eternal life. It is planted as a constantly maturing seed in our mortal bodies. It is within us, an ever-growing, ever-expanding process of development; and it must eventually break out of the shell to become a new form of life. This glorious life of God in us exerts pressure on the shell, and, at the very moment resurrection life is mature, the shell breaks. The artificial bonds are broken, and, like a newborn baby chick, the soul is freed from its prison. Praise the Lord!

Death is but a mere breaking of the fragile shell. At the precise moment our Lord decides our shell has served its purpose, a sudden rush of eternal life floods the soul, and God opens the shell only to free the new creature that has come of age.

Paul said, “To die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshipers that we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

Here is my honest prayer to God.

Lord, help me cut loose from the bondage of things. Let me not squander my gift of life on my own selfish pleasures and goals. Help me to bring all my appetites under your control. Make me remember I am a pilgrim, not a settler. I am not your fan, but your follower. Most of all, deliver me from the bondage of the fear of death. Make me finally understand that to die in Christ is gain. Help me to look forward with precious anticipation to my moment of ultimate healing.

“I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore” (Revelation 1:18).