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CREATED
TO LIVE FOREVER
By Ada
Brownell
“Whoever lives and believes in
me will never die” (John 11:2
Is the water that makes steam gone forever?
No, because the earth has only
a certain amount of water, which is constantly in a precipitation and
evaporation cycle. Clouds, which are nothing but water vapor like steam, hold
water until they become so heavy it rains or snows. Then the sun comes out, water evaporates into
clouds, and the cycle continues.
Do you know
the Bible says our lives are similar to vapor?
(James 4:14) But when we die, we are still somewhere, just as the water
isn’t gone when it becomes steam. We are
made to live forever.
Another amazing fact is we’re not walking
around in the same bodies in which we were born, or the bodies we had last
year. Our flesh developed from one cell and now each of us has about 75
trillion living cells, constantly dying, and being replaced. Everything, except for the neurological
system, has died numerous times in our , then replaced by new cells that knew
exactly what to make, such as skin, blood, hair, bone and your inward parts.
Our skin is estimated to be rebuilt every seven days.
The birth and the death of cells is not the
only way we know we are more than a body. For instance, we can lose weight and
it doesn’t change who we are. We can have parts cut off, such as our tonsils, a
wart or even a hand or leg, and still live. We can even live with someone
else’s, kidney, liver or heart!
The person you are, that God made you, is more than flesh
and blood. But you also have a unique personality, and a spiritual side. When
God’s powerful breath went into Adam’s nose, the eternal soul was born and
every person born since then has a soul and spirit, which lives forever.
Watchman Nee, author of The Spiritual Man,[1]
said humans are a combination of spirit, soul and body.[2] A
person’s spirit is where spiritual things happen. That’s the part us where Jesus lives if we
accepted Him as Savior and the Holy Spirit dwells.
Your soul
is your mind, will and emotions. That’s
where you learn things, make decisions (I will or will not do something), and
feel things such as love, joy, hate and jealousy.
Your body
is where your soul and spirit live, and all three parts of you work together to
make you the person we see and God loves.
The person
you are will never die—whether you choose to give your heart and life to Jesus
or choose to reject Him. God in His love, made you so you could live forever
with Him, but it’s your choice. Hell was
made for Satan and the false prophets, but people who reject God also will be
sent to that place of torment.
But God
does love you. Jesus did die and He rose from the tomb—alive! Because He lives,
we can live forever also.
©Ada
Brownell 2012
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