Today’s topic is on immortality and the
beings that we know as immortals, namely vampires; immortals that have no sense
of purpose and wonder the world looking for meaning in their undead lives.
While their now ability to roam the earth without fear of natural death and
decay, the 'What next" feeling comes of them. I would imagine that this is
true for the resurrected. After the judgment and meeting God, the "What
next" feeling will kick in. For the Celestial beings, they know what life
is all about "to know thee the only true God (John 17:3)". What of
the other beings that are now immortal? They may not what to know God. They may
want to feed the body for hundreds of years with relationships and trips to
where ever, see the sights and hear the sounds but when you have seen the
world, what next? Expand the mind? What happens when you have read all the
books, poems and scripts? After several centuries, would you want death because
life has lost it meaning. There is no end to the riddle, song, story, etc. You become
alone with your thoughts.
For those that are religious and say that
you will just serve God (not actually become one because you are one; Psalms
82:6 and John 10:34). For those that believe that you become a mindless drone
with no identity among the endless masses of angels, I say why would you want
that? Here on earth we have identity, purpose and direction we have an
end.
We know that we will grow old and that
drives us to push ourselves before the end. Careers and families become
important because we identify with them. I believe that in our immortal state
we will mimic our mortality. Become reacquainted with us and others; recreate
what once was to the best of our ability. To those that are not Gods though, I
think that the most missed element of our immortality will be the lack of
children. All of them will have had grown up and become adults and because
there are no children in the afterlife (except for Celestial being) s it will
be missed terribly; not at first but eventually. See there will always be an
empty part of immortality without becoming as God is. Who can say how much more
will be missed because we become similar to vampires without purpose or
direction? Or what direction we would take with no temptation from the bound
Satan. We will all find out in the end.
So how do we avoid the emptiness in our
eternal life? The examples of how we should live in the next life comes from
the very life that we live now. Yes we have discovery and fun and everything is
new as it is for a little child and to keep that will be a challenge if there
is no progression. Perhaps we need to find life like those with Alzheimer
disease. My mother-in-law tells a story about a couple that every day
discovered themselves in each other. They ate together, talked together and all
around got to know each other daily but when the day started anew the following
sunrise, they started all over because they had no memory of the day before. To
me that experience would be horrific but to those two it was exciting and entertaining.
I have read that for some beings heaven
will be like a world where their culture never changed. They will ride the
sunsets and run in the wheat and sail the sea like they did in their mortality
because they found happiness in that. I have fun myself writing all sorts of
things and figuring out new ways to express myself. I read old books and
observe the style. I have taken a stab at foreign language and again to me that
is fun.
What will our next life be like? I don't
know but thank God it’s not going to be torture like that of a vampire.
