I Say This...

I Corinthians 15:50

Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 

Remember yesterday’s devo about the flesh part of us, and the spirit part of us?

The flesh part of us is only for a few decades here on this earth and then it’s buried, it falls off, and all that’s left is a pile of bones covered in dirt.  Our flesh will not inherit the kingdom of God, because it’s perishable – it dies.  And our inheritance is one that is imperishable – it lives on forever.

Living forever is a hard concept to grasp. Some think we had lives before the one we now live, and that if we’re good enough, we might get another chance to come back to earth again, maybe as a cow or a bird. 

The Bible says we have once chance here on earth to choose…or not to choose…life.  And there is no other way to eternal life except through Jesus, because he’s the one who conquered death.

Nothing about our flesh is infallible.  We see this when we cut our finger, lose a limb due to diabetes, suffer dementia when we are old, or break a bone when we are young.  Our flesh is just the shell that embodies our spirit.

And when that flesh falls away, that spirit will soar…and inherit a kingdom without end.

That excites me.

Does it you?