New and Improved!

“For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.” Gal. 2:19


This earthly body has, many times, resisted God’s grace, but let it be known that it will no more. Once this body is decayed and turned to dust, the real me will be watching from above, as the bones melt away, this old body will be new and improved one day! The seeds it leaves behind, spread in the earth’s soil, will also be trampled under foot by the next generation, and they too, by the grace of God, will watch from above. Yes, The body will have lost its shine; it will have lost its luster, its life, but the spirit of man remains. Out of the ground we were taken, as a piece of the earth, “for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” But… wait! Though this old body will someday be eaten by worms, the spirit goes on; upward…forward to new generations, new worlds, and yet the spirit of man abides within him. Let this my epitaph be: New and Improved! Yes, the body was once new, but has not been improved. It can be new, but never be improved here…from the moment of birth, we begin to die, but the spirit endures forever. The spirit improves upon the body.
Here we are altogether hopeless without God’s grace; There, we see His grace done in every one, and in everything. Though many times our flesh has fought against God’s grace, one day we will see it from the other side, and no spirit shall refute His grace, for it is by God’s grace that we are.