Apocalypse 11:4-12 / Luke 20:27-40
If you let a person talk long enough, you’ll hear their true intentions. Indeed, our words reveal what is in our hearts, for from what fills our hearts, our mouths will speak.
In the gospel, the Sadducees put a question to Jesus about the resurrection, and they put up a story about seven brothers marrying the same woman.
Although it was just a story, the question about whose wife will she be in the other world may throw us off and we may end up giving answers that will only generate more questions.
But the fact was that the Sadducees don't believe in the resurrection and hence they posed a rather difficult question about the relationships of the other world.
Jesus gave an astounding spiritual answer about life in the other world and He even quoted from scripture about Moses and the burning bush.
Finally Jesus made this conclusion - God is not God of the dead but God of the living.
The difference between the question of the Sadducees and the answer of Jesus is that the Sadducees talk about death as the end of all. Since there is nothing after death, then it is ridiculous to talk about anything after death. So they ridiculed anything beyond death. That was their intention.
For Jesus, God gives life, and God continues to give life even after death, for God is the living God and God of the living. What Jesus said indicated that He is the Resurrection and the life.
May what we say also show to others that we believe in the living God and that we also believe in life after death. May what we say also be living words that will give life to others