Heaven, a Home in its own kind

Today’s gospel, responds to one of our daily preoccupations, what heaven looks like. Are you going to continue to do the same types of activities, marrying, getting married, eating and drinking and even dying? What will our lives become and to whom will we belong? Our God is not a God of the dead but of the living. This was Jesus’ answer to the Sadducees. This answer is valid for us as well as for all generations. After death, there is life because we belong to the God of love and of abundant life. That is the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob (Exodus 3). In death, our human customs, and habits disappear for we “become like angels” as Jesus said. Marriage and other physical activities all focus on loving God alone and “nothing not even death, can separate us from the love of God'' (Romans 8:31). So when we pass on we do not retain our earthly qualities that focus our attention on ourselves or other people ourselves, but God. Heaven is a different place with love and God as the only focus! Lord, Help me to love heaven now by loving others just like how You love me and so that I may follow the attitude of Christ. Amen.

Fr. Georges Roger BIDZOGO sac