God of the Living
"Surely you have read what God said about people rising from
death. In the book where Moses wrote about the {burning}
bush, it says that God told Moses this: 'I am the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' {If God
said he is their God, then} these men are not really dead. He
is the God only of living people. You Sadducees are wrong!"
-- Mark 12:26-27 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus uses skill, wit, and cunning to argue with the religious leaders
using their own form of logic. "God is the God of the living," Jesus
asserts. So if God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (a truth
that these people professed every day). Jesus is saying then there has
to be a resurrection. At a deeper level, we know that God is God of
both the living and the dead. We believe that he will judge all people
and their eternal destinies hang in that evaluation. We also believe
that he will judge with grace, mercy, and justice. However, God does
not see time as we do. Years are insignificant in their passing to him.
A thousand years can be no more than one little day to God. Yet because
God is, we will continue to exist just as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
did. God is the God of the living. Death does not have control on us
any longer.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father, thank you for ensuring that life is eternal and is found in
you. In Jesus' name I pray to you O eternal Father. Amen.
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