I Cor. 15:50 What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These perishable bodies of
ours are not able to live forever. NLT
No amount of will
power or money is going to stop the aging process. God has ordained a certain
amount of time on earth and then we die. We don’t know how much time we have;
it is hidden in the mind of God. It is why we dare not squander the time we do
have. We can’t assume we know and wait to the ending of our lives to do what is
right before God. We can’t pretend it doesn’t matter how we live. Each of us is
going to die on God’s appointed day and when that day arrives, it will be too
late to change how we have lived.
We are not going to
take our earthly bodies with us when we die. Our flesh and bones will lie in
the grave and return to the dust from which we came. We are spiritual beings
encased in the flesh and when we die we will take on our spiritual bodies.
There is a body that is fit for heaven, and one that is fit for hell.
We need to be careful
which body we give more attention to in this life. If we spend all of our
energy on keeping our earthly bodies in good shape and fail to keep our
spiritual bodies in shape, we have lived foolishly and in vain. Of far greater
value to us is our spiritual bodies. Our bodies will decay and rot in the
grave. Our souls will not die.
We will live in the
spirit forever. What we do now on earth determines where we will live in
eternity, with whom we will spend it, and how well we live. You alone control
what type of life you will live forever. Heaven or hell? It’s your choice.
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