Heavenly Beings

I shared with a friend recently about us being heavenly creatures with an earthly body. The way I see it, after Christ redeemed us, He also restored to us His Holy Spirit. We require a body to interact with creation (earthly, physical); just as we require our spirit to interact with the heavenly. Without that aspect of our own 'trinity' (body, soul, spirit), there is no access to the heavenly realm - just as Jesus said: 'flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.'

Imagine three interconnecting circles. In the first one, write 'BODY', in the second one which is the one in the middle, write 'SOUL,' and for the last one, write 'SPIRIT.' The interconnecting reality for us between these two realms (BODY & SPIRIT, or earthly & heavenly) is that of the soul (the essence of our being: intellect (mind), emotions, will, personality). That is the doorway between the things of heaven connecting with the things of this earth.

DW