A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS

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One Sunday morn as a minister was preaching on life after death, he looked out at his congregation and said, “What would heaven be like without my Willie?” His Willie, nine years old, all boy and rushing toward manhood, had been killed just the month before. And this man of God was hurting because…

…all the faith in the world will not stop us from hurting when someone we love is thrust from their earthly existence by death.

It is a wrenching, terrible, torturous moment. And because it is so terrible we are allowed at that time to feel frustration, anger, despair - but we are also allowed to believe in the Resurrection, that wondrous heavenly promise that can turn cemeteries into cathedrals.

For yes, knowing it is not the end but a new beginning makes all the difference in the world.

Think on this…to live again is no more miraculous than the life we are experiencing at this moment.

Paul tells us that after death we will have a new body. Do you find this difficult to comprehend? Why? Was not your present body miraculously created from a tiny sperm and egg into one or two hundred pounds of complexity?

And cannot God who made a body suitable for earth make yet another one equally suitable for heaven? I have held many funerals but in so doing I have buried a body, not a life. I have buried a remnant, but not a soul. The personality lives on.

And if you would get scientific on me - good. There is an axiom of science that says no material object in the universe can be destroyed. That that which disappears in one form reappears in another.

Reward yourself with the truth that if even matter has a form of immortality, it stands to reason that man’s soul, infinitely more important, must have the same capability.

Sometimes the Bible could be clearer, but you can’t find much greater clarity than when you read Paul’s words in II Corinthians 5:1. “We know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.”

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