Lk 20:27-40
27Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to [Jesus],28saying, “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.’ 29Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. 30Then the second 31and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless.
32Finally the woman also died. 33Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”34Jesus 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. 36They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. 37That 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; 38and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” 39Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.” 40And 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.