Your spirit carries on

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12)

 Many people in the world say that when you pass through the doors of death, it is over, it is finished, it is the end. They are wrong! You enter into a new life: the life on the other side of the veil. You are still you. You retain your individuality. You continue to live, mature, and learn. Your spirit carries on.  
 When we are called from this life, when we are brought to the threshold, we leave the things of this life behind—our earthly bodies, our material belongings. We shed these things as one sheds a garment.
 But our spirit, that which is truly “me” and truly “you,” steps across the veil and lives on forever. Our experience and knowledge—and mainly the spiritual things that we have learned, the matters of love, kindness, and truth—these things remain with us and benefit us throughout eternity. Therefore this is the challenge: Will we learn the lessons we need to learn in this life and apply them?
 Jesus is the door to heaven, and by coming into it through Him, your life in this world, and in the world beyond, will be much greater than anything you ever imagined! “And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:26) [1]

 Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls. —Ravi Zacharias

[1] Anchor What Is Heaven Like?