Our body is truly amazing. As a former engineer, I know how difficult it is to create a robot that can mimic even the simplest of our movements – such as walking. (Imagine creating a robot that can rock climb!)

I haven’t met anyone who couldn’t learn any more because he has reached his brain capacity. And think of the beauty of human body. Don’t some people just capture our attention like no other thing can? What about the senses of touch, smell, taste, etc. Can’t imagine a robot “desiring” tasty food and flavorful drinks. How do we teach a robot to be in awe of a majestic mountain that appears in our sight suddenly as we are driving down the highway? (We can teach it to mimic the response, but can we teach it to feel?)

Perhaps that’s why we are so concerned about our bodies. It is a source of almost unlimited pleasure and potential. There is almost nothing in this universe as wonderful and awe-inspiring as our body.

Even so, it is only a seed. Compare a seed to a full grown oak tree. Our wonderful physical body is only an ugly seed compared to the beautiful, majestic body it will one day transform to in eternity.

1 Cor. 15:35-40, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel… the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.”

Perhaps ruminating on this passage, C.S. Lewis said the following which changed the way I look at people:

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship… Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” – C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

But the only way this is going to happen is if the seed dies. So, don’t be so afraid of death. You are only sowing your body to reap something so much more wonderful. (And this thought becomes more attractive the older you get…)

PH