1 Corinthians 15:34-38 -- On Awaking to Righteousness

"Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body."
1 Corinthians 15:34-38


I like the idea of awaking to righteousness, like sin is just a bad dream, and righteousness is the reality. :) I also like the interesting idea here comparing the resurrection to growing a new plant, where the seed has to die in order to grow something new.  

It's a similar idea to awaking to righteousness not only because we have to die first, but because our bodies are a pattern rather than a set thing... we don't become not ourselves if we lose part of our bodies, or when we get old, and interestingly after these verses it also mentions that our bodies will get better (see verses 40-43).  ... We won't be resurrected with the same sicknesses and problems that our bodies have now, but our resurrected bodies will still be our bodies, just in a perfected state... awakening to righteousness not just in a spiritual way but in a physical way, an incorrupt, perfect temple for our spirits.

Today, since God has the physical perfection thing covered, let's trust in that future hope, and work on spirits to match.  Let's truly awake to righteousness, and "awake from the slumber of death" (Jacob 3:11), letting go of the nightmare of sin, and walking into the dawn of hope in who we can be when we walk in God's way.