Our intimacies will be with God - Lenten Devotional for March 17th

Please read the scripture from The Message, then meditate on it as if you were a disciple then meditate some more. 


Click here to read today's scripture, Mark 12:18-27 in The Message

What will happen next? I guess the Pharisees ran out of guys who were willing to try to trap Jesus!!!

This time it’s Sadducees – the ones who don’t even believe in the resurrection – ask Jesus a question about resurrection!!!

A woman married one brother at a time – all seven eventually – where’s the drum roll – “At the resurrection whose wife will she be?”

Jesus gave this answer “After the dead are raised – you’ll be like angels in that there is no gender, no need to procreate, no need for sex….   God is the God of the Living.”

That first sentence is clear enough. But you could go several directions with God is the God of the Living…

After the resurrection –
                Will the earth be gone?
                Will we forget our earthly life? Our friends? Our enemies? (That’s OK by me – I don’t really have much to miss…)
                Will we have the image of God on a much deeper level?

I think I want to be resurrected!!! Soon!!!


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*This devotion was written by Brenda Clark

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