Greetings all!
Forgive me once more. My schedule seems to be filling more and more by the day. How was your New Years?
I was in church one Sunday listening to our pastor speak, and one thing he said struck me. He said:
"We tend to think of ourselves as physical beings having a spiritual experience. But what we need to realize is that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience."
Wow. Talk about "oooh!!!". Think about that for a moment. We are not just humans stuck here on Earth so that God can watch us mindlessly go about our day-to-day lives or move us where He wants us (like a huge game of Zoo Tycoon). He put us here with a purpose. He made man in His image. He gave of the gift of having souls. That sets us apart from all the rest of creation.
Let me say it this way: a dog has, at the most, around a 15 year long life. What does it do during that time? Well, as a puppy, it learns the basics of good house behavior. It eats, it sleeps, it plays, and it takes care of it's business. After about 4 years, the dog has pretty much mastered all it will ever know. How does it spend the rest of it's life? Eating, sleeping, playing, and...well...you know. When that doggy finally keels over, it is buried and it's owners cry.
The End.
Now, all of that to say that many people believe like that about humanity. They think that we are alive to eat, sleep, and play our lives away until one day: BAM.
We're dead.
And once we're dead, we're flung into a hole and buried. Our friends and family cry, and then we're forgotten. Pretty sad ending, don't you think?
I am thankful to God that this is NOT the true ending to our life's story. For the Christian, when we die, it is only physical. Our hearts stop, and our bodies decay. But we are still living. Our spirit joins the Father for a time of everlasting peace and praises. For the non-believer, it is only a physical death as well. Only, this ending isn't a happy one. For them, their hearts stop, their bodies decay, and they are cast into never ending torment.
Not the ending I would hope for anyone.
Live your life to the fullest in Him. Be who God calls you to be, so that when the day comes for your physical experience to end, you are ready.
10 comments:
I'm also thankful that our lives go beyond death. I've often imagined what it would be like to just pretty much be asleep for eternity, except I was actually gone...not a very happy thought.
Even if I hated somebody (and I do know what it is like to hate someone), I couldn't bring myself to wish them that type of death, and especially not for them to experience the second death of eternal torment.
Ah, it's good to be a soul!
:)Ian(:
Very insightful. Wow. Gives you something to think about!!
Nice template, by the way.
God bless!
That's really cool!
Yeah, I've made my reservations for the Mount Zion Deluxe resort, got my Golden Pass and everything!
LOL
I like that, Araken.
Thanks about the template. I thought it captured me well! ;)
Sweet template, Flinn! Good thoughts too. I've often heard phrases like 'our lives are like one blip on a radar screen,' or 'eternity starts when we're born, the only difference on earth is that we get to pick which path we follow to the Final Destination.'
~Elliot
So, do you happen to know how much it cost Idina to write Georgie Henley? I am trying to do the same thing, but don't know exactly what to do. :(
Just put three stamps on it, and you're good!
Cool, and you don't have to send anything special? Awesome! Thanks!
Nope! Just send it off!
Mae Govannen! I finally updated the Eowyn fanfic. I have the first 2 chapters up now.
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