The body is a shell for the spirit, and you are here to grow in the spirit. Consider a virtual reality: you genuinely experience yourselves to be somewhere else, but while the headset is on, it is possible to exercise the body, and what you have done in the body will remain once the headset is taken off. So it is with the body and the spirit. Though the body goes down to the dust and becomes one with the dust, what was done in the body remains in spirit, so that when the headset is taken off, the growth you have made in the spirit still remains.In this are fulfilled His words: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”For it is not His desire that we should die in the dungeon, still being slaves to our desires, but that we have become sovereign over our bodies and minds, so that we may be able to choose according to what is good and true and not according to our own desires, and in this be able to serve the truth forever and ever.He Himself came down, not only to deliver the good news of God’s grace, but to show what a fully grown tree looks like, for Christ was not merely a man, but an image of the Father in the flesh, so that when we listen to His teaching and follow the example He set before us, we are not only becoming like Christ, but like Him who lives in Him.
>>43185682What choices are there in heaven
Dude I'm trying, I really am.
