”TEACHER, YOU HAVE ANSWERED WELL. AND THEY NO LONGER DARED TO ASK HIM ANYTHING.” LK 20:27-40
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Prayer Prompt before reading LK 20:27-40: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
Today, Jesus is confronted by the Sadducees. Sadducees defined by the Catholic dictionary at Catholic Culture.org says, “A small group in Jewish society, contemporaneous with Christ, who attracted to their ranks rich, educated, and conservative Jews. In religion, they supported only doctrines that they found in written law.” The Sadducees were no longer heard of after the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD. They went strictly by the law, the Pharisees supported oral and unwritten tradition. Jesus spoke to both often in the Gospel writings. Today’s Gospel isn’t so much about marriage as it is the Sadducees trying to trip up Jesus.
Jesus teaches us today that there will be no marriage in heaven because we will have full attention on God. God has to be our absolute center. If we are looking for our spouse to give us complete joy, any couple married long enough will tell us that we will end up chasing our tail. Jesus must be the center. Jesus orders all things properly. Jesus suffers with us. Jesus forgives us when we hurt Him and others if we are truly sorry. Jesus prays with us. Jesus protects us from the Devil with Mary. Most importantly, the Gospel message today is “Jesus isn’t just another great Teacher”-Bishop Barron.
Jesus is God! His love is more powerful than anything else in the world because He is God and rose from the dead. Since we are baptized (Christ grafted Himself onto us), nothing in the world can take the love of God away from us, NOTHING! Even if you don’t love him back! The Father’s love is irrational, non-economical, crazy, and radical.
The resurrection of Christ is REVOLUTIONARY! Since Jesus is God and He dwelt among us in a human body, marrying the two together, what happened to Jesus’s body will happen to ours at the end of time. We, too, will have glorified bodies!
God becoming Man is a unique Christian belief. THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY! God became one of us so that He could be in an intimate relationship with us. Christianity is not a set rules to follow, but a relationship with a Person! Have you allowed Him into your boat (life) yet?
Today’s challenge: Take time to reflect on whether you really believe God became a Man. Do you live your life like God is the most powerful or you are the most powerful? How often do we hate the feeling of not being in control? This unique belief separates us from everyone else in the world and it brings great hope, even hope to the hopeless!
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will rise again!)
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