as we get older, our bodies break down. They don't work as well as they used to. We have harder times recovering from workouts. Our metabolism slows down. Our knees and joints will start hurting more. We will start to run into more and more health risks, aches and pains. Clearly, our bodies were not meant for eternity.
Genesis 6:3 tells us that God has limited our years to 120, and nowadays even with the marvels of modern medicine, the current oldest person alive today is only 114 years old. Yet this was not always the case. Adam lived to be 930. Noah lived to be 950, and Methuselah, the oldest recorded man to ever live, lived 969 years. Clearly these men of old did not have bodies which started to break down at 40.
Our bodies may break down in the present age, but when Jesus comes back in power, and everything concerning the end comes to pass, we will be given new bodies. Take a time to think about that for a moment. We aren't given our old bodies restored, but we will be given completely new, eternal, glorified bodies. And we will live in a completely new heaven and earth. John Piper says, "So when God makes all things new, He make us new spiritually and morally, He make us new physically, and then He makes the whole creation new so that our environment fits our perfected spirits and bodies... God will make our relationship with Him new and glorious." This is the great and glorious God that we serve: God isn't just going to revamp an old tattered creation; God's migth allows Him to make a new, glorified creation.
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