Ponce de Leon was an explorer and contemporary of Christopher Columbus. He was most famous for discovering Florida while searching for the famed Fountain of Youth. He never found the Fountain and died in 1521 in Havana.
Two nights ago, Barbara Walters did a special on aging. Scientists are now saying that we might be able to live until we’re a hundred and fifty years, or more. The research is showing that there’s a molecule in red wine that prolongs life, and if they can isolate it and concentrate it, it could extend our lives for decades. Other researchers are growing new organs from stem cells and believe the day will come when we can have our aging body parts switched out for new ones and stay alive for hundreds of years.
As Barbara interviewed the people involved in the project, including some couples who had decided to have themselves cryogenically frozen after death, the statement was made time and again, “We don’t want death to be the end. We want to be together forever. We want to know that when we die, there will be something waiting for us on the other side.”
While the explorers and scientists of the world are concentrating on making bodies last longer or finding mythical cures that may or may not exist, we can rest assured in our knowledge that there is life beyond death. Jesus Christ died for us and then arose again to mark the path so that we might do the same thing. When we die, we will pass from this side of the veil to the other, and we’ll discover that we’re still ourselves. We will still have our personalities, our thought patterns, our likes and dislikes – we will have lost nothing but our physical bodies, and at the resurrection, we shall have those returned to us as well. I know this of a surety.
We do not need to worry about death. We do not need to focus on expensive surgical treatments to keep us young forever. Death is a part of our Heavenly Father’s plan, but also a part of that plan is bringing us out of death and into eternal life. We can live forever, but we can do it in the Lord’s way, which is infinitely perfect.
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