Eternal perspective

Mark 12:18-27 (TNIV) -

18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22 In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. 23 At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”

24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

My thoughts -

Although the Sadducees did not ask their question honestly I think it does point to a fundamental issue that we have. We get so tied up in the logistics of the unknowable sometimes that we forget to trust the Creator of the Universe with the workings of Creation. We want to understand the eternal when we ourselves are trapped in space and time. We have no way to comprehend eternity and yet we quibble over the details.

I believe that when we get to Heaven we will marvel at just how confused we were. A lot of things that seemed so important in this life will be inconsequential when we are no longer prisoners of time and mortality.

I'm looking forward to that. But, as always, not yet. There's plenty left for me to do here. I'm in no hurry. I've got all of the time in the world.