Opus 2025-412: So That’s What It’s Like

In thinking and researching on the topic of heaven and hell and wondering what is involved in the afterlife my mind came to what it will be like when this old body gets resurrected.  Paul uses terms like corruptible and incorruptible to describe the difference.  He compares the mortal with the immortal.  He doesn’t go into a lot of detail.  About all we have specifically would be to look at Jesus when He was resurrected and the things that he did at that point.  I think Jesus could’ve done most of those things before He was resurrected, but He didn’t.  He confined himself to a normal human body for the most part.

It occurred to me that the greatest benefit of eternity and its body for me is not the body itself, but the mind.  I confess that I am not racked by pain like so many people are.  I don’t have the disabilities that I see around me so often.  I’m getting old and stiff, but I am not crippled.  I rejoice in that and I am thankful every morning as well as often during the day.  Having said that I’ve never been athletic, and although I’ve had my fantasies of being a famous basketball star and such never really believed that would be part of my life.  So I don’t see eternity in terms of being able to leap tall buildings with a single bound or stop a speeding locomotive.  I see eternity is being able to think clearly, remember facts and research deeply into reality.

Have you had those times when you know there’s a verse that you want but you can’t think of how it goes.  Sometimes it’s so bad you can’t even remember one specific word.  You try them in your software and nothing comes up.  You try variations you find nothing.  Eventually, you might stumble across it and realize that you forgot to put the words in the plural or you had it spelled wrong, or all kinds of things.  For me eternity will be having a memory that doesn’t play games.  I won’t need to access software.  I might have the entire scripture memorized.  I can’t comprehend.  I look forward to the day when I can wake up, look around me, be totally aware, and say, “So this is what it’s like to be alive.”

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