It is amazing how fixated we can become about things we do not know. Perhaps it is part of our God given DNA as humans. It is really our ingrained desire and purpose to seek out our Creator. To many this is Science. No matter what you call it, God is a mystery to be unravelled. The more we know, it seems the more there is that we do no know. The more complex we realize the universe is, the more we see how magnificent and powerful is the Creator of all things.
One of the things we all seem to fixate on is what happens to us after we die. Perhaps as believers it is better asked, what happens in the next realm of our existence? The other day I invoked the vision of a Pina Colada and a Heavenly beach as heaven for a friend who recently passed. We even sent flowers based in a glass vase filled with sand and shells. She thought the beach was heavenly. Her idea of retirement was lazing about on a beach somewhere. Mine of course would be an endless stream of cars for me to drive on the best driving roads and no speed limits and not bound by the laws of physics. That is, not having to worry about flying off some cliff instead of around the curve.
All in all though, it is far better for us to think about the now. If you must think about the hereafter, Jesus makes an excellent point for us. What we have no is imperfect. Like a seed, the shell must be broken for the new life to breach and grow. There is no greater brokenness in this world than what we see when we look around. We are all broken in one way or another. THAT is what we need to realize. We cannot expect perfection and must appreciate our imperfections and loving what God sees in us. Some people may hide their goodness , their potential or gifts. Some people seem frustrated and paralyzed in their attempts to 'crack their own shell' , progressing and growing in life. One of our major , perhaps thee task of life, is to see God by looking around at others. We must look at the created world and see where God is evidenced. In people we may have some hard looking to do but let us try to see what God sees in all of us. If we cannot see it, then KNOW that God loves that person at least as much as God loves you. Even cracked and damaged, God loves us. We are not perfect here. God sees what we cannot see.
I like to think that when our imperfect human lives come to a close and we move on to our heavenly inheritance, we will have a new limitless form with sight and wisdom not possible on this side of existence. I call it our 'aha' moment. We will know then what we cannot know or see now. We will know the why and how comes or perhaps we will see that what we think is important is really of no importance.
No matter what, we are better served concerned about this life and loving God here.
Live well, love fiercely, know God.
1 Corinthians 15: 35 - 38, 42 - 50
(But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.
What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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