​Week 30, Day 2

​Week 30, Day 2
July 26, 2022
Scripture: Luke 20
 
“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.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”” (Luke 20:37–38)
 
 
The Sadducees approach Jesus with a terrible scenario. A woman is married and remarried 7 times because her husbands who are all brothers, all die before she does. She is childless and husbandless in a society that this matters a great deal.
One death is enough sorrow for a lifetime. Seven is unimaginable pain. This is a made-up scenario by the Sadducees at best, to seek understanding regarding the resurrection, at worst, to trap Jesus.
 
Who will she be married to at the resurrection? 
 
Folks may not like Jesus’ answer here. I know my wife Wendy will be disappointed that she won’t have the good fortune of being married to me in the age to come. “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 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.” The new age is not concerned with marriage. There will apparently be no need for it. We will have life, to the fullest. Marriage, a means for creating life, will not be needed. Marriage, a covenant between a husband and wife, will not be needed as the new covenant, new age is here, and we are given fully to God.
 
For Jesus, the Sadducees continue to be enamored with death. For Christ, he is all about life. Death is no more in this coming age. God is the God of the living. Our life is in him.
 
Today, we seek to honor God with our lives and give ourselves to him.