Wednesday, 17 January 2024
WE GROW BUT WE DON'T AGE
And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you (Romans 8:11 AMPC).
Some people believe the human body is meant to be active and vibrant for only a few years before it starts getting weak. So they ask, "Just how far can the body go?" Well, the Bible shows us the body can go very far. Adam lived for 930 years before he died. He didn't die because the body couldn't take it anymore; he died because of sin.
God had said to him, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:17). He ate of it and died. Many others lived for several hundreds of years. Some even lived older than Adam until the sin in the world got so much and God said, "...My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years" (Genesis 6:3).
Notice that God didn't say less than 120 years. Some people however quote Psalm 90 and say God reduced the number of years of man's life from 120 to 70. But that's incorrect. That particular Psalm wasn't written by David; it was a lamentation written by Moses. It says, "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years..." (Psalm 90:10).
Moses wasn't stating something from God; he saw the children of Israel passing away at a young age and he lamented. Think about it: how long did Moses himself live? "Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished" (Deuteronomy 34:7 NKJV).
If Moses could have had such an amazing testimony, you have something better. In Christ, you've been brought into agelessness. When you were born again, you received the same eternal life as Jesus. Eternal life is the life with agelessness. When you received it, you were brought into God's realm of eternity, into an ageless zone. In Christ, we grow without ageing; we have an endless, incorruptible, and indestructible life.
PRAYER: Dear Father, thank you for I'm no longer bound by the limitations of ageing and decay. I have passed from death to life; from age into agelessness. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and I'm strengthened, vitalized, and energized by Him now and always. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
John 11:25-26; Romans 8:10-11 ESV
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 12:22-50 & Genesis 40-41
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Acts 10:1-8 & Job 5-6