Just a few days after our blizzard, the temperature shot up to 50 plus degrees. You can imagine what that did to the children’s snowman in the front yard. As we left for the airport this morning to get our California children back to California our seven-year old grandson looked out the window at the very small pile of remaining snow and said, “Look, he’s still alive!” Surrounding a little bit of snow was a withered carrot nose and some acorn caps that had been eyes and tummy buttons.
Through the years I have watched some of my very alive and large friends literally melt away until they barely filled their wheelchair. Little old ladies and little old men weren’t always so little. It’s too bad that our grandchildren can’t see us when we were as strong and vital as their parents. My students laugh when I tell them to be careful in heaven. That pretty lady you eyed on the streets of gold might say, “Watch it young man. I’m your great grandmother.”
Luke 20:38 is a wonderful verse. It says, “He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” Though the Bible clearly speaks of a coming resurrection of the dead (I Corinthian 15 and I Thess. 4.) Jesus wants us to understand (John 5) that once we accept Him we pass over from death to life. Though our humanity melt away we will always be alive in His memory and via His resurrecting power we shall once again breathe and move and love and do all the wonders that God longs for us. Jesus is who He says He is – The Resurrection and the Life.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 3, 2011
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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