What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15: 36b-38, 42-44

On Resurrection Sunday, we attended a sunrise service with our grandsons. It was quite memorable hearing the boy’s voices along with their dad’s singing hymns. Earlier our youngest grandson asked what kind of bodies we will have in heaven. I think the passage above gives us a good idea as to what God has in store for us.

The Corinthians had some trouble understanding what happens to our bodies after the resurrection. One of my study bibles comments that “Paul’s contrast between the “natural” and “spiritual” is a contrast between that which is temporally alive and the which has an eternal existence with God, [but] by spiritual body Paul doesn’t mean an immaterial body, but a body animated and empowered by the Holy Spirit.”

Christ made it clear to His disciples by encouraging them to touch him and He ate and drank with them. He was not a ghost or some ethereal spirit.

Later in the chapter, Paul again compares Adam with Christ saying that, “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven” (1 Corinthians 15: 49).

He was risen with a supernatural body and we should expect nothing less as the day approaches for each of us.