November 18, 2009
Remembering
My sister Shelly passed away a couple weeks ago and we’re trying to re-adjust to life minus the care-giving responsibilities. Even though Bill mentally deleted Shelly from our evening prayer list, occasionally her name will just pop out…and we laugh. It’s as though she’s retaining her place on the list even though she’s no longer in need of prayer. In time, all those who have passed on come to mind less frequently. Eventually they will be remembered no more, unless of course their last name da Vinci. Jesus made sure we would not only remember Him with the Lord ’s Supper, but that we would also proclaim his death until He returns.
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Gail;
-----I get a kick out of the documentaries presented on the History Channel explaining how strong winds parted not the Red Sea, but the Reed Sea for the Israelites, how the Santorini volcano created the ten plagues in Egypt, how another volcanic blast consumed Sodom and Gomorrah, and on, and on, and on. Man so wants to see with only his eyes; he so wants explanation only by science! And such hogwash eventually gets drug into the church. My Dad once told me of a friend who attended a church that taught eternal life as being the memory of the deceased carried through the minds of his successors. What a rotten way to live eternally! Of course, I will never forget my parents, and I do remember my Grandparents, but I know nothing of my Great Grandparents. I guess they have no eternal life in my mind. And I hope for their sake, someone out there remembers them, and their parents. I am so glad science does not explain everything.
-----God remembers every human ever alive. He remembers everything about them. But neither is eternal life just a living-on in the memories of God. He actually created us as eternal spirits. Our inability to see, hear, taste, touch, or smell these spirits does not attest to their non-existence. It merely attests to our inability to do so and to their non-physical nature. Our bodies are only a point of contact with the physical existence which are given to our spirits for as long as the bodies can maintain their life functions. When the body dies, the spirit just looses this contact and proceeds to its next condition ordered by God. Our memories are feeble only because our bodies are feeble, but those spirits are actually more alive after death than we are before death. There is so much more to the spiritual world than there is to the physical one. In fact, as much as the body is a point of contact with the physical world for the spirit, it is even more a blinding veil separating the spirit from sensing the vastly greater spiritual existence.
-----So when folks die, I don’t necessarily grapple for memories like it is some drastic responsibility. I remember them for what they were, knowing that they have just moved to a room where I can not yet go. I will move there soon, where things are easier.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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