Reflection: Christ’s return: resurrection bodies

God’s new creation is on the move, and he invites audience participation.

All creation is spilling clues not just in words as we know them.

Words sing, thunderously cascading in choruses of crochets and quivers.

Words gleam, speaking in spattered colours and rejoining in dazzling refracted light.

Words waft, sucked in through mesmerising breath,

they’re memorised and are being interpreted in wisps of nasal tales.

Nature is an abundant and infinite God-speak of aesthetics.

New Creation snuck into our world with a shimmering Word—theophany in a helpless babe.

It will reach its thunderous grand finale at the return of that Word.

When all creation will recognise his fiercely worthy love and worship.

When, at the sound of a trumpet you’ll… “look up and blink your eyes…[and] we’ll all be changed. 

[When] everything perishable [is] taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal.

“When, in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone…”

 (1 Corinthians 15:52-54,57 MSG)

Prayer:

“…Christ, the everlasting Lord… lays His glory by,

Born that man no more may die; 

Born to raise the sons of earth; Born to give them second birth.

Come, Desire of nations, come! Fix in us Thy humble home: 

Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head; 

Adam’s likeness now efface, Stamp Thine image in its place: 

Final Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love.” (Hymn by Charles Wesley)