Read Luke 20:27-38
27 Some Sadducees, those who say there is no
resurrection, came to him 28 and asked him a question,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but
no children, the manb shall marry the widow and raise up
children for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers; the
first married, and died childless; 30 then the second 31 and
the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. 32 Finally
the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose
wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.”
34 Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to
this age marry and are given in marriage; 35 but those who are
considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 Indeed they cannot
die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being
children of the resurrection. 37 And the fact that the dead are
raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of
the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38 Now
he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are
alive.”[1]
Think
Jesus affirms the truth that there is resurrection; and that
there are some who are considered ‘worthy of a place in that age and in the
resurrection from the dead.’ ‘They are
like angels and are children of God.’ (35, 36)
If heaven was perfect place, full of perfect people – and
somehow I got in… I would ruin it. We need God’s grace and mercy to transform
us.
Pray
Lord – I know I’m not worthy of a place in that age – I am
not like an angel; few people would guess that I am your child. By your grace, transform me.
Amen
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