Today: [Ecclesiastes 12] Absent from the Body – Present with the Lord. In this concluding chapter of Ecclesiastes we find a profound truth about mortality, eternity and one-ness with the Father. In chapter 12 Solomon describes the body winding down from a very mystical perspective. There is a point even in unregenerate man that their human spirit, the life principle God gave them when they were born, will return to God that gave it. The question is for every man and woman have they accepted the blood sacrifice of the cross so that when God does take the breath of life back to Himself will we find the open door of access available to us to be absent from our body and present with the Lord? Evangelical thinking on this subject is cloudy in some respects and Solomon’s insights help us better to understand the deep, mystical nature of our union with God even in the context of our own mortality.
