Peter says, “This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.”


Acts 10:40-41


Peter explains to Cornelius that God raised Jesus from the dead. The resurrection does not mean that we will go to heaven when we die. It does not mean the promise of life after death. To say Jesus rose means that he received a brand-new body — a resurrected body. In his resurrected body, Jesus ate and drank like a normal body would but he could also walk through walls and vanish and appear in another location.


What God did with his Son; God wants to do in us. Now, here’s the difference. God raised his Son from the dead and it started with a bodily resurrection. God begins differently with us. God begins by changing us from the inside out and then eventually will give us a new body in the resurrection. God starts by changing our minds, our hearts, our souls, our spirits. God makes us new internally and then eventually gives us a new body.


Thank God today that he wants to give you a new body.