Temporal life

This life is temporal; it simply was never designed to last. For most people life on earth is a little more than threescore years and ten. In the grand scheme of things we are visible in history for only the blink of an eye then we are gone, mere dust.

James 4:14:
‘Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away’.

Our earthly bodies were never meant go on forever, far from it. Just as the riches and possessions of this world were also never meant to last and should not be the focal things in our lives. Riches and possessions, our bodies, even the current heavens and the earth, all of these things are merely temporal. They will not be here forever.

So what then?

Is our existence all about doom and gloom?
Is it a case of you are born you live and you die?
Should we just spend life enjoying what short time you have on this earth and cram in as much pleasure as you can because it’s all going to end one day.

Well no, that isn’t the answer at all. That isn’t what life is all about.
But sadly for a great many people the focus is on the here and now. They spend their time chasing self-gratification, making money, bigger house, better car.
Drinking, smoking and indulging in all manner of pleasures of the flesh. These people are looking in the wrong places, they are trying to find material things to make them feel complete, to fill that void.

Matthew 6:19-20:
‘Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal’.

Pursuit of the carnal is not the way, these things are not what we are about at all. God didn’t make us for any of that. We were made for better things.

It has been said that we have a God-shaped hole in our hearts. And of course only God can fill that hole and give true peace, nothing else can ever fill that emptiness.

God made us to have a relationship with Him. He wants us to turn from our innate desires, our temporary pleasures and repent and call out His name.
To ask our Heavenly Father to save us from ourselves and for us to seek out His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and realise we are lost without what was done for us at Calvary.
To confess that we need Jesus and that we will follow Him for the rest of our lives in our earthly bodies, then meet Him at last in our new bodies.

Yes God has prepared new bodies in heaven for His children.

When we rise from the dead, our bodies will be different than our earthly bodies; they will be eternal. There will be no sickness or death. We were first born in sin, which leads to sickness and death, but through Jesus, we will be raised in a glorious spiritual body that will never die.

Our earthly bodies will die, they were always meant to be temporal but through Jesus we will be raised in glorified bodies to eternal life.

1 Corinthians 15:53-54:
‘For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory’.