2 Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12 / Mark 12:18-27
Life with its many complex relationships is difficult to understand.
How did people fall in love, and then some fall out of love.
For some people, blood is thicker than water, but for other, blood relationships are like water under the bridge, i.e., they are passing moments.
If life on earth is already so complex and difficult to understand, then the eternal life is left very much to imagination.
For the Sadducees in the gospel passage, they don’t believe in the resurrection nor in eternal life.
So they came up with a complex situation about relationships in eternity and then questioned Jesus about it.
They hoped that by doing that, the belief in eternal life would crumble and so they don’t have to worry about what happens after death.
But Jesus proclaimed the truth about God, and that He is not the God of the dead but God of the living.
With that, we will understand that God is in our relationships in this world as well as in the next.
Let us focus on God and live our lives well and have good relationships with others while we are on earth.
And when we cross over to the eternal life, God will give us life and life to the full.