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

When we lived in the womb, it was the only world we knew. Then, we were born into this world, and again, it is all we know. When we pass from this life to the eternal, it will be as if we were born again. The Word of God will be opened to us, and the trivialness of this world will fall away.

I was given a taste of what happens when we pass to the next world, and I write about it in “The Triumph of the Cross.” There comes a time when each of us will kneel in the presence of our Lord. He will elevate us to a level we cannot imagine now. We will see through His eyes and love through His heart, experience His unimaginable power, and finally believe that all things are possible for God.

We will know every sin we committed and beg to be washed clean in the Blood of Christ. We will regret every sin because we will finally understand the workings of salvation and the staggering cost that Jesus paid.

Saint Boniface, pray for us.

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Jesus, I trust in you!