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Re: This Metamorphosis: the Race Against Death |
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eliyah |
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Aug 26, 08 - 2:43 PM |
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James,
I have been thinking on this one thing you have shared..."For this corruptible MUST put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality." Not the mortified which means already dead, but the mortal, those dying with the aging processes, this is who must put on deathlessness or immortality."
These are my additional thoughts thus far...(for I know that I will continue to have others...lol...)
One of the experiences that both my husband and I have shared is the desire to LET GO of all the known...even so far as our natural identities that we were born with...this year we did not even celebrate the old adamic birthdays...we just let them die in the past too.
When I think of my old identity it is as if I am remembering someone that I was familiar with and have memories of but she is not me...even when I say her name it is as though I am speaking of another.
I also am reminded of a situation where we were fellowshipping with a group of people and they started singing a christian song...and it had melody that confessed something to the effect...'when I die'...and in the past I wouldn't have blinked an eye and would have joyfully sung right on along...but both my husband and I couldn't bring ourselves to join in the chorus...it was not true to us.
I don't share like this on such a topic b/c it is not easily shared. I also understand that this very topic is an overcoming in itself. For it is hard for most in the Kingdom to really hear someone say 'I don't believe I am going to die in the natural'...what?? Are you crazy?? What about the verse that says 'for it is appointed to every man once to die...ect. ...)
Truly this subject is one of GREAT OVERCOMING...and I see why you have stated "But it is not only what within ourselves operates in the realm of death which is the sphere in which sin reigns, (cf., Rom 5:21) it is through others affecting us also. "
This is why both my husband and I were called to leave all that we have known to come into all that we have not known...for our dear precious christian friends have not had their minds transformed to such a degree that they can even FATHOM the possibility of overcoming death in this life.
As we obeyed the instructions to leave...we were rewarded with those of precious like faith...(you, Joian, John, Florian, and others) that have the SEED of FAITH to believe FOR SUCH...(we are all at different places in the understanding of the overcoming natural death and may see different facets of the jewel...but we all have in COMMON the truth that the natural body will CHANGE...as the FELLOWSHIPPING of HIS SUFFERINGS will BE/has now been REWARDED WITH THE FELLOWSHIPPING of His GLORY).
Praise you Lord!
Just some thoughts...
Love,
eliyah |
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