In today’s Gospel Jesus points out that everyone who has a relationship with God even though they may cease to exist upon earth are still alive in the eyes of God. He illustrates this by referring to the story of the Burning Bush in which God reveals himself to Moses as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. At the time when God spoke to Moses from the Bush Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had already been dead for over two hundred years and so it is interesting to note that God says of himself that: ‘I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ as opposed to saying: ‘I was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It just goes to show that relationships are for the living and those who have been faithful to God in this life will forever be alive to God in the next life.
Jesus also points out in today’s gospel that when people rise from the dead at the resurrection they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Since there will be no marriage in eternity this also means that there will be an end to procreation and therefore we who exist are a collectors item because we are a limited edition. Each one of us are numbered among the limited number of human beings that God has chosen to collect and gather to himself as his prized possessions, as trophies on his wall even. Each time I think about this reality I am filled with a unique sense of being special. All of us have been created with great care and concern by the wondrous hand of God who calls us to himself daily in the Eucharist so that he may teach us the Truth of the Scriptures and the Power of God at work in our lives, a power which transcends even death itself
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