Birthday Joy

This is the Birthday of my middle (of three) Granddaughter. She is shy and reserved.....until it comes to her Pa-Pa.....then she is joy and lightning in a bottle. I am made happy, filled with joy, just to be in her presence. My heart has been expanded these six times, (the number of grandchildren I am blessed with) no, it is seven, for I have one great grandchild. I could not imagine being this full, complete, overflowing, consumed with love. My life has always been full of love, but never to these heights. On this special day I thank God for Hannah.

12-5-2014      Mark 12:18-27

S.       18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. 23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. 24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. 26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

O.      In this controversial question, Jesus answers by referring the questioners to the written word of God, thus revealing their lack of depth in spiritual matters.

A.      Every answer in life can be found in scripture. I must study, learn and understand God’s word.

      P.       Father; open the eyes of my understanding and enlighten me to the true interpretation of your word. Come                           sweet Spirit and fill my mind, heart and soul. Amen.