TIME FOR A NEW BUILDING

I admit an interest in old buildings.  Where I 

grew up there were none.  When they started

to get old they were torn down and something

else built in their place.

A few months ago I begin to feel about like the

picture above.  With old age and having come

down with anemia about nine years ago I could

feel my body simply shutting down.  I truly 

wondered if I would make it this far.  But I had

them pray for me at Church, and of course I was

praying.  Praise God.  Right now I feel about the

best I have felt in years.

But, does death bother me?  NO!

Having been in a personal relationship with

Jesus Christ for most of my life this Scripture

is one I can depend on.

"For we know that when this

earthly tent we live in is taken

down (that is, when we die and 

leave this earthly body), we will have

a house in heaven, and eternal body

made for us by God himself and not

by human hands.  We grow weary 

in our present bodies, and we long

to put on our heavenly bodies like

new clothing.  For we will put on

heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits

without bodies.  While we live in

these earthly bodies, we groan

and sigh, but it's not that we want to

die and get rid of these bodies that

cloth us.  Rather, we want to put on

our new bodies so that these dying

bodies will be swallowed up by life.

God himself has prepared us for

this, and as a guarantee he has given

us his Holy Spirit."

(2 Corinthians 5:1-5 NLT)