We decay and die. We go from dust to our bodies and then we die and end up back to dust. BUT.. God takes us and protects us. He surrounds us with His love and as we live, if we continue to live within His love, we will live on longer and be protected from the world.
It is like man, taking iron ore and processing it into steel and making it into something of value. Like our bodies, steel will rust and decay and not live as steel for very long. Man takes his object of value and protects it. Covering it in paint to preserve it and make it more beautiful. Man has even invested in different paints and processes to preserve the object for as long as possible. Man has not found the perfect way to protect his object. But God’s love is the perfect protection for our lives.
Of course as we look at the cars on the road, one of man’s favorite objects, you will see that even though man has tried to protect his object, his car, it still rusts and decays. If the covering of paint is chipped, water can get in and start the decaying process. At first he doesn’t see it and before long the small chip has turned the reddish colour of rust. If left, the area becomes larger and eventually deteriorates into a hole and then that area is unrepairable. That whole section needs to be cut out and some new steel the exact shape put in to make the object beautiful again.
Like our lives, if we go outside of God’s love, His best for us, then our lives are not perfect and we allow Satan, the rust of our lives to come in and affect us, to make us unhealthy. It could be through our mind, body or our spirit. being this way is not normal and will shorten our earthly lives. Satan will try to chip away at our lives until he finds a way in. then once in he will work on us until he has made a hole and makes us deteriorate more and more.
If we don’t go back to the maker and find the exact shape to fit the hole in our lives we won’t be whole and beautiful again. Once we have done this we need to ask for God’s forgiveness and the protection of His love again, live as he taught us to live and keep Satan’s attacks on our lives at bay so he doesn’t chip our armour and get in again.
Just as man, when he finds the exact shape piece for the hole in his object, he doesn’t just fit it and say good. No, he wants to protect it from rusting again so goes about finding the right type of paint and matching colour, the best protection so he won’t have to keep replacing the part and it will look beautiful again.
So as we repent and make the hole in our lives perfect we need to keep living in God’s ways and love so we can show His beauty in the way He made us and pass on the love He has for us to others.