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The Upward Path

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This mellow, privately owned chapel soaks up the sun in the oldest part of a graveyard across town from my home. The churches that dot our countryside are monuments to a godly heritage. – A heritage that calls us back to God, back to the faith of our forefathers. The path, like life, carries us forward. We are intended to be taken towards the light. We are each on a path. One day we will step out of sight. There is one way that leads beyond the sky. It is via the cross.

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Secondary Keywords	cemetery chapel christianity church cross eternity graveyard headstone hope life light path pathway salvation
Tertiary Keywords	death future heaven peace
Scriptures	1 Corinthians 15:35-55 1 Peter 1:4 1 Peter 5:4 2 Corinthians 5:1 Acts 2:26 Job 19:26 John 14:1-4 John 14:6 Philippians 1:23 Proverbs 23:18 Psalms 16:11
1 Corinthians 15 35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 1 Peter 1 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 1 Peter 5 4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 2 Corinthians 5 1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Acts 2 26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. Job 19 26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, John 14 1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.4 And you know the way to where I am going.” John 14 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Philippians 1 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. Proverbs 23 18 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Psalm 16 11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.