Recently, I used earwax-removal, and could not hear very well for a day while my ears drained. It was unpleasant and claustrophobic (for lack of a better term.) In the misery I gained some perspective of things.
We are all handicapped in our hearing compared to bats, and blind compared to a hawk, and we have lost our sense of smell next to a dog ... none of us have much going for us, when you boil it down. None are really able-bodied, nor have we ever known what that is like. We live in this world making distinctions between our abilities without much difference between us.
Ever notice that fourth place at a track competition doesn't get a prize even though they were less than half a second behind first place? Ever notice that when you look from atop the Empire State building, there isn't much difference between a brown grain of rice and a white grain? Our comparisons and contrasts are so very trivial, compared to what lies ahead for us.
Yes, some of us have "relative wealth" and "relative health" if you want to draw minuscule distinctions between us, but it is all sickness and destitution compared to the treasures of the Kingdom that we can store up. I doubt seriously, if we will ever remember these silly comparisons that we make in this life that don't amount to much.
Like a runner that sheds ankle weights for the first time in their life, we won't know how bad we had it in these bodies until we have our new one, and having our new one will erase all the distinctions we have ever made before ... we will count it all rubbish on that day, amen?
Yes, on that day you will stand tall with radiant health and beauty, in the fullness of which the Carpenter formed you with nothing lacking and with no flaws or deficiencies. It is not vanity, and no vanity is found as we stand before Him dunked in His love, filled with His Spirit and in an atmosphere of praise ... the very air we breathe.
OH YES!!!
Matthew 6:19-21
19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
"Take no care to all these things of the world that encompass you round about, leading you into temptation." ~ Jesus
"The world’s ways is the wide path leading to destruction, completely blown away as the chaff on the wind." ~ Jesus
"Cast Away All Your Earthly Possessions, and Give Yourself Completely to the Lord" ~ God
"What of all these things of the world that catch your attention?...They are but a wisp, a moment soon passing into a sea of forgetfulness. Know you not, this world, as you now see it, is passing away?" ~ Jesus
Matthew 6:19-21
19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
1 Timothy 6 -
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain F13 we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
I ask you to love those who have hurt you; and to love them is to forgive them as I have forgiven them and you. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6 - Understand Love, Know Forgiveness, Partake of the Whole Fruit of the Spirit and Make It Part of You]