Swallowed Up in Life
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed now we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God. 2 Corinthians 5:1-5 Swallowed in Purpose I am going to focus the next couple blogs on my journey “to be swallowed up by life.” I can’t explain this any better than the verse above; albeit loaded with symbolism and metaphors. We are born with human bodies, earthly dwellings like tents. The tents eventually decay and die, but in Christ we have opportunity to “put on a spiritual dwelling made by God." It's that new spirit or soul that can commune with God, now with purpose, and which eventually can reside with God in a new heavenly form. So, in my retirement days currently, I k...