Thursday March 21, 2024

John 8:51-59

They picked up stones to throw at him, they had enough. What did he say to provoke them? This beautiful truth that in death life does not end, in death life is changed. For our God is God of the living. The Israelites did not all believe in a life after death. We do not see this at all in the early scriptures. It is only after the book of Daniel that we begin to talk about those taken from us by death.

Jesus asks us to look at death differently. It need not paralyze us no matter how difficult it is to accept. Death is part of life not the end of life. But Jesus suggests even more if I may dare say. That life does not start at birth. This is a tough one right? Because we firmly believe that the spark of life happens at conception. What if that soul is older than the human/flesh experience. It simply is and never gets old. Well it’s getting deep here.

Back to Abraham and Jesus and the lesson for today. Your loved ones are alive, yes alive in a different realm. This I believe. If you have time watch the clip “to heaven and back” on YouTube. Let me know what you think.