Vile Caterpillar Days

^{Today I'm feeling gnarly. 
I wasn't up to finding a picture to take, so I dug this out of the camera's internal memory from September.
I may be 'tanking' this week physically, but I was reminded of the hope I have in Christ, that I won't be stuck with this 'vile body' eternally.} 
I am glad.


^{In fact, just like this Imperial Moth caterpillar, I'll be trading in 'vile' for 'glorious' someday, and that sounds pretty good right now.
I} tried to isolate just a couple of verses from this passage, but it felt like editing the words of God, which is not my idea of...well, a good idea.  :)  So read on if you wish. Emphases mine.


1 Corinthians 15: 39-58 (NASB)
 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.
 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.
 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
 So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
 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.
So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL " The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.
 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.
 "O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?"
 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.