Earth's Pull

The Bible tells us we were created from the dust of the earth.  It also tells us we will return to the dust.  God breathed into man's nostrils and man became a living soul. Because God breathed His breath into man, man's soul will live on.  It cannot die.  Amazing!  God is life.  He created life.  Man is a spiritual being, he has a soul, and he lives in a body.  The spirit man will live on throughout eternity, but the body will return to the dust.  I believe from the time we are born this earth has a pull on us.  We know that gravity is pulling (or holding) everything on earth.  That's why are bodies start sagging when we grow older.  This earth is pulling us back to it.  The Bible says, dust to dust and ashes to ashes.  Once our spirit man leaves our body, there is nothing left but an empty shell.  The body will decay and become part of the earth from which it was made, but the spirit will take it's flight and return unto it's maker, God our Heavenly Father, if we are born again.  If not, the spirit will go to hell, but it will live on throughout eternity.  The Bible also compares our life to a vapor and to a flower, that is here today and gone tomorrow.  Life is short.  Let's do all the good we can for as long as we can.