Over the past year, I have been to 2 funerals and visitations. The first one was of my 80 year old grandfather and the second one was of a 20 years old young man in our church. Standing over both of their coffins during the visitations, it was more evident, than ever before, how temporary our bodies are. Laying in those 2 coffins were shells of the people they had once been. They were not there. The life was gone. The soul was gone. Not dead, but gone. It had left that shell. It had disappeared from that body and moved on to the next life.
I was thinking about his concept when it occurred to me how much time people spend on the physical body vs how much time people spend on their souls. The physical body gives out. The physical body stops working. The physical body stays here, in a coffin, buried in the ground. The spirit man lives on and yet, we stay so concerned with how tall or short we are. How much we weigh. What we smoke, what we drink, tattoos, piercings, abortions... We have a world full of people saying, "It's my body, don't tell me what I can and cannot do with it." We are passing laws concerning people rights to do whatever they want with their body. We are having protest rally's for people to be able to sleep with whomever they want because it makes them feel good.
Here is the question of the moment: Who is concerned with the condition of the soul? The physical body stays here. They physical body, dies. The spirit man lives on for eternity and yet, the spirit man, often times, gets pushed to the back burner, if not totally ignored. No one is teaching, don't steal. Don't kill. Don't be angry. Forgive. Love your neighbor. These concepts are all concepts that deal with the condition of the spirit man.
What does this tell us? The majority of people care more about temporary things than eternal things. Here is the only problem with that: temporary is... well... temporary. Eternity if forever. Wouldn't it make sense that eternity receive more attention than the temporary? Yes. It would. Taking care of our bodies is important but it should only be because our healthy body is allowing us more time to work on the eternal spirit within us.
Shouldn't it?
