What one considers worse can be considered better by another. This happened when we lost our beloved cat Tinker after having her with us for sixteen years, and we picked up our new cat from Cats' Protection. The worse thing that could have happened for us was to lose Tinker, but the best thing that could happen for our new cat was to be found and taken in by ones who love her. She is a 'rescue' cat from 'Cats' Protection'. So too are we 'rescued' when we have been born again of God's Holy Spirit.
Just as we were born of the earth and struggling with various things in our fleshly body, God has a plan of 'rescue' for mankind, to change all who believe in Jesus from 'earthly' to 'Heavenly', with the gift of eternal life.
This reminds me of how, according to the fleshly mind of the fleshly person, the worst thing that could happen is to pass away in this world, but to the mind of the born again believer in Christ the best thing that could have happened was to be found and taken in by the Ones Who love that person - God the Father and His Son Jesus. For although even our new cat will pass away one day in the flesh, our new 'person' in the Lord will not.
1 Corinthians ch. 15 v.50 states.:-
' I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.'
2 Corinthians ch. 5 v. 17 states :-
' Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come.'
As John 1:12 states:-
'But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God,'
The most important thing in my life on this earth was to be born again of the Holy Spirit, and to have access to the Holy Spirit leading me into all truth through the mind of Christ - the firstborn of all creation. For now I have access to eternal life in the most beautiful place I have ever encountered when I had my near death experience.
