Reflections

Saturday, November 21, 2015

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 in him all are alive.
(Luke 20:37-38)

We are alive in Who You Are, oh Lord, and you will keep us alive even when this world passes away.

The Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection of the body, tried to trick you with their silly question about marriage in heaven. They were applying a worldly law to your eternal rule. Yet you answered them seriously and respectfully, disarming them with your wisdom. Even after all you have taught us, we still forget that your law is given not to burden us but to prepare us to receive your love.

The man who kept taking his dead brothers’ wives did so that they might have children. In answering this hypothetical story, you tell us that those in your eternal Kingdom are “the children of God” and no longer the “children of this world.” Our relationship is in and through you.

In this month when we remember those who have preceded us in death, we also prepare for the day when we will join them. Help me to use this world, its goods and its regulations, always in relation to the end for which you created and redeemed me. Whatever happens today, help me to see it in the perspective of your light. Once again, I ask you for patience and focus.

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