![]() ![]() Some believe we will be reincarnated several times before reaching our full state of glory others say that the soul can live on without a body until the day where they’re rejoined. What happens in the meantime isn’t exactly clear. Indeed, when our souls are rejoined to our resurrected bodies, the resulting union will be far greater than anything we can imagine now! I believe this also applies to the physical body. Parts of us have to die in order for us to grow spiritually. Indeed, I have died many small “deaths” over the years, and have always re-emerged stronger. I have found this to be true, on the spiritual level, in my own life. ![]() The glory of the heavenly (body) is one thing, and that of the earthly is another” (1 Cor 15:37-40). Saint Paul expands on this, saying that “You do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed.but God gives it a body as He has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. They will rise again someday, in a much greater form than what we currently inhabit and the souls (squirrels) will then be reunited with the trees (resurrected bodies) in the eternal field (the Spirit).Īs Jesus tells us, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24). What, we may ask, happens to the acorns after they die? Well, they too have a new life! They rise again in the form of the oak tree. It will continue to give nourishment to new souls (squirrels) and bodies (acorns). The life of the Spirit (the field) is eternal, and cannot die. Like the squirrel, however, the soul must eventually return to its source (represented by the field). It may not be aware of what it’s doing, but the life of the soul continues on long after the death of the body. Like the squirrel, the soul doesn’t always know where it’s taking the body and at some point, the body, like the acorn, will go into the ground and die.īut the soul, like the squirrel, will carry on, finding new bodies to carry around. The soul depends on the body, just as the squirrel depends on the acorns and just like the acorn, the body depends on the soul (the squirrel) to carry it along. Like acorns, our bodies are carried along by our souls (the squirrels). The acorn in this analogy represents the body, and the squirrel is the mind or soul. Recently, I came to see a pretty good analogy for the life of the Spirit in terms of a squirrel, an acorn, an oak tree, and a field. Indeed, the relationship between body, mind, heart, soul and spirit (and the degree to which these depend on one another) isn’t something we’ll likely ever understand completely.įor those who have eyes to see, however, there are many clues in the natural world. Zack Simmons on Did Jesus Talk to the Dea… Hairstyles on “To You it Has Been Given”: Th… “Do You Trust Me?”: A Reflection on Luke 11:1-13Įlizabeth Chesky (Be… on Welcome to the End, Part Three….Welcome to the End, Part Two: Can You Run Faster Than My Bullets?.Welcome to the End, Part Three: Pandemic. ![]()
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