PERSPECTIVE

PERSPECTIVE

being the single women we are and at the stage of life we’re at, my best friend and i frequently discuss the topic of singlehood and marriage. and while we have our hopes, we know that ultimately, we are called to be content wherever we are and we can trust that God will give us the best for us. this morning, however, i gained a new perspective that i’d never really noticed before…

That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. Finally, the woman died. Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead–have you not read what God said to you, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
~Matthew 22:23-32~

wait. what did Jesus say?

At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

hm. so if this is the eternal perspective, why is it that we fret so much about finding that “special someone” again? i’m not saying marriage isn’t important. just maybe that we place too much emphasis on seeing it happen in our own lives, especially in light of all the people who are passing into eternity Christless. definitely something to think about.