Our short lives on earth
are sowing time. If there were no resurrection of the dead, everything
we live on earth would come to nothing. How can we believe in a God who
loves us unconditionally if all the joys and pains of our lives are in
vain, vanishing in the earth with our mortal flesh and bones? Because
God loves us unconditionally, from eternity to eternity, God cannot
allow our bodies - the same as that in which Jesus, his Son and our
savior, appeared to us - to be lost in final destruction.
No, life on earth is the
time when the seeds of the risen body are planted. Paul says: "What is
sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable; what is sown is
contemptible but what is raised is glorious; what is sown is weak, but
what is raised is powerful; what is sown is a natural body, and what is
raised is a spiritual body" (1 Corinthians 15:42-44). This wonderful
knowledge that nothing we live in our bodies is lived in vain holds a
call for us to live every moment as a seed of eternity.
The wonderful knowledge,
that nothing we live in our body is lived in vain, holds a call for us
to live every moment as a seed of eternity.
Henri Nouwen
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