Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,
came to Jesus and put this question to him, 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 and died, leaving no descendants. So the
second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants and the third
likewise. And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died.
At
the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be? For all seven had been
married to her.” Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not
know the Scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they
neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in
heaven. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses,
in the passage about the bush, how God told him, I am the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead but of the
living. You are greatly misled.”
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Reflection:
What is your idea of the afterlife? Jesus gives us a
glimpse of what life is in the afterlife. He tells us that there’s no more
human activity in heaven such as marriage for we all will be like angels there
(Mark 12:25). But are we going to heaven after our lives are over and done with
in this world? Nobody is sure about this, only God knows where we would end
up after we cease breathing.
But on hindsight even if we don’t hold our destiny
after our life is over we also have to do our part. We have to live our life
pleasing to the eyes of the Lord and not pleasing to our own eyes. What
does it mean to make our lives pleasing to the eyes of God? We have to live the
teachings of God and not the teachings of this world.
If we decide to follow Jesus let us follow Him until
the end of our lives. We should not allow sin or anything that contradicts the
teachings of God to momentarily derail us. It must be authentic discipleship
for Jesus all the way until we stop breathing!
Let us therefore make it a part of our prayers to
ask Jesus to bring us to heaven when our time comes. Let us ask Him to shower
us His infinite mercy for we all have fell short of His expectations. – Marino
J. Dasmarinas
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