Resurrection of the Body

 “For in the resurrection, they shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage. Instead, they shall be like the Angels of God in heaven. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken by God, saying to you: 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭22:30-32‬ ‭CPDV‬‬

https://www.bible.com/42/mat.22.30-32.cpdv

Is death the end of everything or the beginning of something new?  Is it something to hope for or to fear? Fear of the unknown is understandable.  Having a healthy fear drives us to discover new ways and worlds.  It makes us see far beyond what our senses reveal to us.  Yet, death seems to be unknowable because none of those who preceded us in this journey ever came back to tell us what is on the other side.

Yet God spoke of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the present tense not the past.  They physically died as we know death but these men of old presaged living a new reality in the presence of the living God.  So too will our hopes rest on this truth that death is the door through which we pass to a new life.  Our bodies will rise and we will be like the angels.  For man was not made to simply be a body but also given the spirit.  Man was made in God’s image and called to share in His divine life.

Am I afraid to die?  Not if it means being given a new body that does not age, or succumbed to sickness, prone to weariness, weakness, and the appetites of the senses.  Not if it means being clothed with a spirit in perfect union with the angels and saints.  Not if it means by dying I live forever in God’s love.