Every tribe. Every race. We are all one. When we die, we shed these imperfect bodies and obtain our perfect heavenly ones.
From what we read through scripture, I don’t believe they will be anything like our human minds could dream of or conceive. Not skin and bones. Not looking like we do now with age. My wonder, however, has been what age we will look. Well, maybe we won’t look any age. A heavenly body has no age. We shed this earthly vessel, and our true inner self goes to Heaven—that is what we will look like.
And it will be fully recognizable.
Forgive this analogy… My thought is like how Bella recognized Jacob as a wolf in Twilight or how in the novel version of The Hunger Games the beasts at the end all had the eyes of the fallen tributes. Odd comparison, yes, but it is what I can think of that may people would relate to.
That is how we will recognize each other. Not by face, but by our eyes… our souls. The adage says the eye is the window to the soul. And our souls are the part of us that lives on.
Our minds are too limited to realize how glorious it will be… or too selfish and vain and attached to the physical bodies we currently reside in. This makes me think of the cartoon where the girl wants the little bear in her arms and won’t give it up. Jesus wants her to give it to Him. All the while you see a huge bear behind Him just waiting to give her once she gives the small bear up. We are like that. Holding onto what we think is important and better when God has something so much better for us—our heavenly bodies.
This can include salvation. We want to hold onto our world and our lives. Thinking that if we give it up, we will lose the things we love to do. While we may need to give up some things—that little bear… but, what we gain is so much better than anything we could even imagine.
God is good. He loves us and wants the best for us. And that is ultimately heaven; He died on the cross to take us there. Some day we will shed these imperfect bodies and be with Him there, and with all those that we know who have died in Him before us. And we will know every one of them the moment we look them in the eye.
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.” – I Corinthians 13:12
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