Daily Inspiration

“Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants. So the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died. At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.” —Mark 12:18-27

The fish in the pond knows only of the world in the pond, just as the child in the womb knows only the world in the womb. We are no different. After birth, we live in the tiny pond, but there is another place, grander than we could ever imagine.

We cannot comprehend living with God in heaven any easier than the fish imagines living beyond the pond, or the baby imagines living beyond the womb. This is why we ask the saints, who live with the Holy Trinity, to pray for us and to guide us in the ways of Christ Jesus, so that one day we, too, may also live in God’s heaven.

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