The God of the Living

 

 Luke 20: 27-40

The Resurrection and Marriage

²⁷ Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. ²⁸ “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁹ Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. ³⁰ The second ³¹ and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. ³² Finally, the woman died too. ³³ Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”

³⁴ Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. ³⁵ But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, ³⁶ and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. ³⁷ But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ³⁸ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”

³⁹ Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!” ⁴⁰ And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Jesus does not fall for the trickery  of this question, "whose wife will she be?" Rather,  he speaks of hope for an everlasting life in heaven, beyond what we know "here below", where there will be no marriage.. May we trust the words of Jesus that we will be "like the angels", God's children, children of the resurrection, alive and with God forever and ever.  It boggles the mind, but so shall it be.  Jesus has said so.

Bro. Rene

You are the God of the living. Don’t let me think otherwise, by lingering on futile questions that put that truth to the test. Without your vision of what is to come, I’m limited to what is and to letting so many things hold me back. Free me to go beyond my own limited understanding to the world to which you draw us more and more each day. Amen.

Rev. Don Fetters, C.S.C.