God of Life
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Is God the God of the dead or the God of the living?
God is the author of life and the giver of life everlasting. When we are in God, there is no death, because God is the God of the living.
In Luke’s gospel account Jesus assured the Sadducees of the resurrection, saying, “But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” (Luke 20:37-38, ESV).
While the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, Jesus assured them of the resurrection by citing God’s word to Moses where he identifies himself as “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”
God is the God of the living. At the time God spoke to Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had passed from the earth, but God spoke in present tense, as if they were still alive in him and he is their God.
May we see God as the God of the living and be assured of his resurrection life as we live to him.
A Collect for Strength to Await Christ’s Return: “O God our King, by the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ on the first day of the week, you conquered sin, put death to flight, and gave us the hope of everlasting life: Redeem all our days by this victory; forgive our sins, banish our fears, make us bold to praise you and to do your will; and steel us to wait for the consummation of your kingdom on the last great Day; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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