God's Holy Fire: 'Spirit-life in Mortal Bodies!'

Our physical bodies are mortal, finite, and temporary. We don't like to think about this fact or admit it to ourselves; but after a certain point in life, our bodies begin to remind us regularly of this reality. The first few chapters of our Bibles tell us that sin brought spiritual and physical death into the world. But when we became Christians, we were reborn by the work of the Holy Spirit. We were made holy, and the Spirit came to live inside of us. So while our bodies are subject to decay, they are also part of a greater reality. They are the place of God's life-giving work through the Spirit, work which will culminate when the same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead also raises us and gives us immortal bodies that are beyond decay. While our physical bodies remind us of our mortality, the Holy Spirit is our reminder, our guarantee, of life forever with God.