Life After Life After death After life

DEVOTION

ECCLESIASTES

LIFE AFTER LIFE AFTER DEATH AFTER LIFE

Eccl 11:6-10

6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

7 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. 8 However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.

9 Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment. 10 So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.

NIV

Three different little tidbits of wisdom, yet they all have similar meaning. There is day and there is night. There is life and there is death. Enjoy the life as short as it is for the death is forever. At least from the humanistic point of view. We know that life leads to life after life after death. We know that sounds a little odd, but when we consider that as death seizes this body, we depart to what we refer to as heaven. This heaven or whatever it actually exists as, is only a temporary place, just as whatever the place is that we call hell. No one really knows what either those places are like as no one have returned from them to inform us. Yet as temporary as they are, we have a life, then when the last day arrives we will have a life after that life, but it will be in a place we know somewhat of as it is described to us in the revelation to John. This is the new city of Jerusalem on a new earth. That is the life after the life after death. But there is a point that still exists in this life. Work while it is day and night, sowing the seed of the word of God. It is an endeavor we never retire from and become idle just because we get old. We just do not know, we could be successful in our youth or in our later years. Life is to be enjoyed as it is a gift from God. The verse before these speaks of God forming us in the womb. Although science believes it understands it all now, it is still a wonder of God. Science may know how the physical form comes together, but it still does not know how the person, the individual mind, and the personality becomes a living soul, the spirit who lives in that physical form. Enjoying this gift of life is not about living for all that can pleasure us, as Solomon makes note of, for God will judge all things. With age comes a certain sense of wisdom, but from a life in Christ comes far more wisdom, whether we are young or old. Banish all anxiety in our hearts. Sometimes we do get anxious about our life, we want this and that, we are anxious about what is going to happen next. How is our life going to travel? It seems many people expend so much effort in trying to plan out their whole lives. Some people send entirely too much time concerned with their physical form, trying to make it look its very best. Even Christians get hung up too much using the idea our body is the temple of the Spirit so we should take care of it. The Spirit does not live in our body, we do, the spirit lives in us, in union with our Spirit. He is the Spirit, not the Son, who lived in a physical form. So we cast off the troubles of this body, youth to aged, it matters not for we are spirit, and we are what matters, who will be judged by our deed of accepting or rejecting Jesus as our Savior. Casting off the physical and understanding that life after life after death is what is important to God and thus it should be to us. So let us live the life before death expecting the life after life after death.