To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:27
Let us meditate on “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” There is a great hope in Christ for all those who believe in Christ and really abided in Christ. What is that hope? It is a hope of glory, a hope of receiving a glorious life.
1 Cor 15:52 says “For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. We will be changed in a glorious form. We are going to get this glorious heavenly form of man (1 Cor 15:49). How it will be look like?
1 John 3:2 says “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. We will be like Jesus. After resurrection, Jesus has this glorious body. Let us see from scriptures how this glorious body looks like.
“Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side.” Jesus was asking Thomas to touch his wounds.
John 20:27
Luke 24:39 “Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” Jesus was asking his disciples to touch him, which means it was a literal body with flesh and bones as we have now. John 20:26 “Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” We see here that Jesus entered a room with locked doors and met his disciples, which shows this glorious body has no limited capacity.
“It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
1 Cor 15: 44
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.” So, it will be a spiritual body. 1 Cor 15:43 “It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.” So, the resurrected body will be a powerful body. Luke 20: 35, 36 “But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels;” The resurrected body will be like angels.
There are many more verses in Bible which demonstrates about this glorious hope. But, to receive this glorious body, the condition is “Christ is you.” We may have knowledge of Christ and we may be serving him, but still not having Christ in us. If Christ is not in us, we may not have this hope of glory.
Prayer
Let us allow Christ to live in us through Holy Spirit. Let us have close intimacy with him. Let our body be his temple and dwelling place. Dear father, we are thankful to you to give us a great hope in Christ. Let all of us have Christ in us, so that we will have hope of glory in him.
In Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Sol.Grishma