Pam Padgett ... teacher
Recently the following was shared ... For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Corinthians 5:1)
As I read this verse, I thought of how little
the condition of our physical bodies matters. As we grow older, our physical bodies tend to weaken. We don't have the
physical strength we once had, and we may have more physical problems. But our hope is not in our
physical bodies, but our hope is in God, knowing that God has called us
to have eternal life by Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up
us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15 For all things are
for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving
of many redound to the glory of God. 16 For which cause we faint not;
but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by
day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look
not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not
seen are eternal.
Our physical bodies deteriorate, but our "inward man" is renewed as the Holy Spirit works in our lives, the power of God conforming us to
the image to Christ.