Today's Reflections
Reflections
November 18, 2011
Luke 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came
forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote
for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his
brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died
childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all
the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will
that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to
them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; 35but those who are
deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the
dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the
children of God because they are the ones who will rise. That the dead
will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he
called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all
are alive.” Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have
answered well.” And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.
Reflection:
The resurrection. We have modern-day questions about this. Shall we
have our bodies back on resurrection day? How about those who have been
cremated? Shall we look like zombies? Shall we be recognized by those
who have long been gone ahead of us?
I believe these should be God’s problems, not ours. We should be more
concerned with the question whether we are worthy of resurrection in
the first place. Will God find our life worth resurrecting after death?
Will we have faith enough to survive the afterlife?
I am sure the woman and the brother husbands will have a good laugh
when they meet in heaven. In the afterlife, there will be no more stupid
laws like the one that forced them all into marriage.
Heaven for me is God allowing us to continue and live on the many
good and happy moments we shared on earth, this time sharing them with
God Himself.
Spend some bonding time with your family this weekend.
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