Re:Verse passage – Psalm 139:13-16 (day three)
“For you formed my inward parts…”
Your body is quite hardy. It endures injury, stress, mistreatment, sleeplessness, infection. It’s designed to tolerate adverse conditions with resilience. Yes, eventually, these afflictions might lead to death, so your body is not invulnerable. Wouldn’t imperviousness to harm have made more sense, though? Well, consider a possible consequence arising from your body’s inability to experience pain, never knowing wounds or exhaustion or sickness. Would you then give care and tenderness to your body or the bodies of others? Would you learn to regard your “human being-ness” or anyone else’s as sacred? One day, the bodies of all who count on Christ will be raised. In that day, they will be, finally, immortal. Each person raised will have learned to care for and love all bodies profoundly. That’s when a person will be ready for immortality.
