D E E P D ES I R ES TO B E C LOT H E D W I T H L I F E
inheritance that the Spirit longs to give precise expression. Is it not curious that Jesus suffered so violently in his body, mind and spirit? A body, mind and spirit that was made like us in every way. While fully human He experienced every possible death that could face us. Yet so much of Christianity puts off what He did for us in His body to when our bodies are dissolved? Is this not backwards? Why did Jesus suffer so horrifically in His body for us if it was not for our complete salvation while in this body. Let me make this statement. If the groans and desires for all that is mortal to be swallowed up of life take place while in this body. Then the fulfillment and realization of these groans shall take place while in this body. If you are yearning in this body then the fulfillment of this yearning is to be received and fully realized in this body. Desires in This Body...Fulfillment in This Body Resistance, delay and religious dogma will try to pull you back to what you have always experienced. You begin to be forced into the mindsets of only realizing this fulfillment in the afterlife. These earnest desires to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven become a wistful dream of a far away heaven. This yearning is by the Spirit and it is not for the afterlife. It is to swallow up all that is mortal. Let me say again, the same desires that we are expecting to be realized in the putting off of this body are the same desires that we want to be swallowed up by while in this body. Think with me for a moment. Is it not odd that religion demands for us to reach for behavioral perfection while in this body but puts off the resulting life that should follow until the afterlife? We are admonished to live right and not commit sin while in this body. However, to expect this mortal to express the resurrection life of Jesus is put away until this body is redeemed? The same death and resurrection that put away the old man and crucified this body of sin is the same resurrection that 387