Sermon Illustrations
C.S. Lewis on the Wonder of Our Resurrected Bodies
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul emphasizes that we will be given new bodies. In his book The Great Divorce, a fictional look at Christian perceptions of life after death, C.S. Lewis imagines what those new bodies might be like. He describes them this way:
I saw people coming to meet us. Because they were bright I saw them while they were still very distant, and at first I did not know that they were people at all …. The earth shook under their tread as their strong feet sank into the wet turf. A tiny haze and a sweet smell went up where they crushed the grass and scattered the dew. Some were naked, some robed. But the naked ones did not seem less adorned, and the robes did not disguise in those who wore them the massive grandeur of muscle and the radiant smoothness of flesh. Some were bearded but no one in that company struck me as being of any particular age. One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless—heavy thought in the face of an infant, and a frolicking childhood in that of a very old man. Here it was all like that.