Three Stages of Life by Ojomah Victor Enyone

             THE THREE STAGES OF LIFE

By; Ojomah Victor Enyone

(For there is no life before death, there is life only after death)

Most humans seem to spend their whole existence dissatisfied and lack everything they need for a meaningful life. That’s because they fail to understand what is life itself? What are the stages of life? And what are the characteristics of each stages?

        WHAT IS LIFE?

Life is simply Existing (Body)… Dying (Spirit)… and Living (Soul)

   THE THREE STAGES OF LIFE

1. EXISTING:
 The first stage of life is existing (living as a body), at this stage men only live for pleasure, leisure and treasure. They live for what is good and not what is right, for today and not tomorrow, they end up as slave and specimen for the spiritual men. They exist but never know life. THEY ARE LIVING MEN, DEAD.

CHARACTERISTICS

Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious). They are immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (fractions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like, I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21).

2. DYING:
This is the second stage of life, dying (living as a spirit). They are awake in the night and sleep in the day, they think their imagination into existence, carry their yolk while they are young and are not move by every moves. THEY ARE DEAD MEN LIVING.

CHARACTERISTICS

They die and live by deadlines, they keep their mind not eyes on the prize, they break the rule and enforce the law, they lead with their mind over their mood, they set boundaries, they work at developing habits, and they avoid temptation. They gain and rule the world because they think tomorrow today.

3. LIVING:
Very few of the world population are in this group, this is the real life (soul). They don’t know about God but they know God, they don’t just go to religious gathering but to His presence. THEY ARE LIVING MEN ALIVE.

CHARACTERISTICS

LOVE:
 Love endures long and is patient and kind, love never is envious nor boil over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride), it is not rude (unmannerly) and not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking, it is not touchy or fretful or resentful, it takes no account of the evil done to it (it pays no attention to a suffered wrong). It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything (without weakening). Love never fails (never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to and end). (1 Corinthians 13:4-8a).

In conclusion for what does it profit a man (body) to gain the whole world (as a spirit) and forfeit his life (soul) (in the eternal kingdom of God)? For what can a man give as an exchange (a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his blessed life (soul) in the eternal kingdom of God? For whoever is ashamed (here and now) of me (Jesus) and my words in this adulterous (un-faithful) and (pre-eminently) sinful generation, of him will the son of man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendour and majesty) of His father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:36-38).