After This
Do you ever think about eternal life and what it is like?
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her." Jesus said to them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; 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. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 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. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive." Then some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you have spoken well." For they no longer dared to ask him another question. - Luke 20:27-40
The only reason Jesus was asked about the resurrection was to try to trap him into saying something they could use against him.
They didn't believe, so it was merely a though exercise for them. What will he say and how can we use it to trap him?
But Jesus didn't fall for the trap. He never does.
He told them that in the resurrection, we are no longer married to one another, but are one with God like the angels.
I have mixed feelings about that.
While spending an eternity with God has the potential to be more amazing than I can imagine, I wouldn't want to lose the connection I have with those I love.
There has to be a way that we remain bonded, since a true love is one that exists in the soul as well as the heart and mind.
So, what will we be like after this life ends?
Will our souls reconnect with the souls of those who have gone before us, and those we know and love who go after us?
There would have to be an awareness, a sense of who we are and who they are, right?
It is almost beyond our imagination.
I guess we will just have to wait and see.
More to come...