I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Psa 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.


1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.


Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.


Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.


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We should all live with this as our life's objective above ALL else!


Psa 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.


Beholding God's face in HIS righteousness. Satisfied when we wake from the sleep of death into new life with God's likeness. For when we wake from the sleep of death incorruptible we are changed to incorruption. Even if we don't see the sleep of death but are translated at Christ's second coming we are changed. All of us that are God's are changed and the change is a restoration of our lives untarnished by sin, the breach healed, once more we are as God created us to be - in His likeness, in His image, in His righteousness, at one with Him once again.


Do we know exactly what it will be like? No. But we have glimpses.


Luk 20:34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
Luk 20:35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
Luk 20:36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.


No marrying, no marriage. Obviously there will be no need of such. Marriage is the joining of two - man and woman to complete each other and to multiply. It wasn't good for man to be alone so God formed woman out of man's rib giving him a companion, a companion he could join with. If we are worthy to obtain the new world in Christ, worthy of being translated or resurrected into that new world, into God's likeness, we will never be alone there will never be a loneliness such as Adam felt as he was left alone with all of God's creatures around him, not finding one to compliment Himself. Life will be different in many, many ways. Another joy of awaking in God's likeness in the resurrection to God's new life for us is that fact we won't be able to die, in that respect we will be equal to the angels. Our forms perhaps as Jesus' new form upon His resurrection and ascension to the Father- flesh and spirit form. Jesus could be handled, be touched and He could eat food yet He was able to ascend to heaven, able to appear without opening a door. Spirit and flesh combined. Angels too take on the semblence of flesh at times- we are told to entertain strangers because they might be angels. We know angels visited Abraham before they continued on to Sodom and Gommorah as beings seen as men. Angels unlike us now can't die. We can be wounded, our flesh is being corrupted from the moment we are born. We all see death as our future, we live our lives knowing death will eventually catch up to us. Angels don't have that worry, even as they take the form of man they cannot die but they can revert to their spirit form.


David said he would be satisfied when he woke with the likeness of God. This was where his satisfaction lie and it's where our satisfaction should be. We can't count on this life to satisfy us if we do then we will forever be found wanting.


May God help us to realize through the righteousness of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior we can have the hope of this change and be satisfied upon that glorious day of transformation. Through the blood of the Lamb of God, through the forgivness and righteousness we can only find in Him may this be realized for us all. Please Lord bless us, keep us as Thy will is done on earth as it is in Heaven, protect us, keep us from the evils of this world, teach us to realize that we need total dependence upon Jesus for all things, not a single thing we can do will save us. The work God would have us to do is believing in Him, believing, having faith in Him for all things.


By His amazing grace.


Amen.