Spiritual Cells
It never ceases to amaze me that we - walking, talking, thinking human beings - began as 2 cells! Those 2 cells, filled with the DNA of their mother and father, became one (united); then divided; creating another cell, those 2 cells divided making 4 cells, which divided and made 8 cells, and so on, until 9 months later a child was born - a person - with characteristics of both parents. Wow!
Cell division and growth doesn’t end at birth, it continues rapidly, growing and developing a child through the stages of life. Some estimations suggest that we consist of roughly 50 trillion cells (a number I struggle to fathom). All through life, new cells are generated and old cells die off. This is called cell regeneration and it occurs at the estimated rate of 3 million cells a day. When new cells are created they are a replica of the original cells. This is one of the reasons it’s important to have “healthy” habits. As you might imagine, healthy cells generate healthy cells, and unhealthy cells generate unhealthy cells. What you do today affects you years from now when the unhealthy cells you may be creating develop more unhealthy cells. We often don’t recognize the benefit of healthy habits until years later.
The same is true of spiritual cells. They continue to grow, develop and regenerate. Spiritual cells generate spiritual cells. The more we feed and nourish them, the healthier they become and the healthier the cells they generate will be. That’s why staying in the Word is “good for you”.
Since we know that everyone is born with a deposit of the Holy Spirit, this is true for unbelievers as well. At sometime in their life, they may “hear” the Word of God and it unites with a (Holy Spirit) cell deposited at birth. That cell generates a new cell that is also full of the Spirit. If the unbeliever periodically gets “fed” the Word of God, those Spiritual cells multiply faster and the spiritual fetus grows. We should never think our efforts to spread the Good News are in vain. God will NOT turn His back on His Word, and we have no idea how “far along” their spiritual fetus is. Eventually the cells that are full of the Spirit will reach gestation, they will accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and they will be born (again).
Psalm 96:2 Sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
Blessed Father, Thank You for your deposit within me. Thank You for uniting with me to advance Your Kingdom. I pray that the Holy Spirit within me would continue to feed Your spiritual cells – in whomever they may be. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Barb
Cell division and growth doesn’t end at birth, it continues rapidly, growing and developing a child through the stages of life. Some estimations suggest that we consist of roughly 50 trillion cells (a number I struggle to fathom). All through life, new cells are generated and old cells die off. This is called cell regeneration and it occurs at the estimated rate of 3 million cells a day. When new cells are created they are a replica of the original cells. This is one of the reasons it’s important to have “healthy” habits. As you might imagine, healthy cells generate healthy cells, and unhealthy cells generate unhealthy cells. What you do today affects you years from now when the unhealthy cells you may be creating develop more unhealthy cells. We often don’t recognize the benefit of healthy habits until years later.
The same is true of spiritual cells. They continue to grow, develop and regenerate. Spiritual cells generate spiritual cells. The more we feed and nourish them, the healthier they become and the healthier the cells they generate will be. That’s why staying in the Word is “good for you”.
Since we know that everyone is born with a deposit of the Holy Spirit, this is true for unbelievers as well. At sometime in their life, they may “hear” the Word of God and it unites with a (Holy Spirit) cell deposited at birth. That cell generates a new cell that is also full of the Spirit. If the unbeliever periodically gets “fed” the Word of God, those Spiritual cells multiply faster and the spiritual fetus grows. We should never think our efforts to spread the Good News are in vain. God will NOT turn His back on His Word, and we have no idea how “far along” their spiritual fetus is. Eventually the cells that are full of the Spirit will reach gestation, they will accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and they will be born (again).
Psalm 96:2 Sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
Blessed Father, Thank You for your deposit within me. Thank You for uniting with me to advance Your Kingdom. I pray that the Holy Spirit within me would continue to feed Your spiritual cells – in whomever they may be. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Barb
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