It's amazing how often we can make a judgement based on our perception rather than the truth.
Ever since school has come back into session, at my morning commute traffic has picked up at a particular light.
I put some thought into alternating my route to avoid this traffic, after all, it felt like it was adding 10 or 15 minutes.
I thought about this, even acted on it and yesterday I altered my route. However, today I decided to simply time how long the back up was at that light.
It was 4 minutes.
Four minutes is not worth changing my route for, in fact the new route probably added more than that amount of time. But it felt like I was waiting longer so I I felt like I had to change something.
It's better to make an informed decision.
In Matthew 22:23-32 we read,
"That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. "Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. Finally, the woman died. Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?"
The Sadducees were not interested in the answer to that question as much as their argument proving (in their eyes) that there could not be a resurrection. Let's continue reading to see how Jesus responds.
Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
Before we come to a conclusion, it's best to know the facts, and it's also best not to limit the power of God.
