There's More To Come

  

 Luke: 20: 27-38

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.”

Aren't we Blessed that there's more to come?  It is like awakening the morning after Daylight Saving has ended and not having set back the clock, discovering another hour's sleep is ours! May we not grow discouraged by the trials that come to us, sometimes in  huge waves, sometimes in little trickles.  There is more to come, more time, more blessings, more energy, more grace, more answers to our difficulties and challenges. God is  the
God of the living and wishes nothing but the best for us.  Let us not forget that. The Best is yet to come!

Bro .Rene

O God of the living, you are the God of resurrection—the God who makes a way where there is no way, who makes a way through tombs that are closed. Jesus himself is the promise of the resurrection of the dead. You, Father, gave us the empty tomb, a silent rock that whispers to us a promise of life. It is the same promise you made from a bush burning in the desert: “I will deliver you.” You, God of the living, crush death and mend everything that is broken. Because of you, even death turns to life, and our fear turns to gladness. Amen.

 Rev. Michael Thomas, C.S.C.