Doctors, psychologists, and scientists are proficient in their fields. They attend school for many years to learn the latest in medical and scientific knowledge, and they are constantly absorbing the finer details of their specific arenas. There are certain answers to difficult questions that can only be given by one of these people.
No one doubts the expertise of an established expert in his or her field.
Yet, let that person step outside of the area in which they are most knowledgeable, and they will stumble about as a fool in the darkness. Music theory? The doctor scratches her head and shrugs. Mixing oil paints for the latest colors in an amazing sunrise? The psychologist is mystified. The best fertilizers to grow amazing roses? The scientist moans over lackluster blooms.
Yet, these are the people the world quotes when it comes to belief in life after death. There is no questioning their authority in the physical world, but our spirituality is not of the physical world. We have to look to a spiritual expert to find those answers.
See Isaiah 60:1 for our first response:
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.”
Our time to shine is already here. We need to rise up and celebrate. It’s nothing to do with our income or our social standing. It’s all about the glory of the heavenly Father.
Genesis 1:27 refutes those who claim they are experts in the spiritual world, yet deny there is a god:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
We are exactly like God. He is spirit, and he created us with a spiritual nature to reflect who he is. We can’t see this in the physical world, only in the spiritual.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 gives the final word on the matter:
“And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
It’s not our bodies that will rise to meet Jesus in the air. If we try to define life after death through medical, psychological, or scientific means, we will fail. It is a spiritual thing, one that will carry us before him in our final, glorious, and quite spectacular arising.
God’s glory supersedes all our earthly turmoil, for he is spirit, and he lifts us in spiritual glory to be like him.
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