1 Bride & 7 Brothers!

Reader, let me tell you how bad I felt for the wife in the book of Mark, chapter 12. Here you have a woman that probably married at a young age, into a family with 7 brothers. She is wed to the eldest, who dies and leaves her childless, within her custom she can't go off and marry someone else, she has to marry the next brother. This guy may already have a wife or two and now she is the hand me down wife. But wait it gets better cause it doesn't end there he dies and so do the next brother, all the way down to the last; who all leave her childless and in my eyes lifeless!

I was all fine being negative about her situation , but God was kind enough to remind me that I do not know this woman and the life she led. She could have been happy to be with the family of her first love and to think that she could have a child that shared the blood of her first husband. And who am I to say that she was childless, there could have been nieces and nephews to watch over and love and be a second mother to them. She could have left but would she have been happy?

It really hit me that i was so quick to impose my own negative thoughts with out given benefit of thought to another side that was positive. 

Mark 12:18-27

The Message (MSG)

Our Intimacies Will Be with God

^18-23 Some Sadducees, the party that denies any possibility of resurrection, came up and asked, “Teacher, Moses wrote that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to marry the widow and have children. Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless. The second married her. He died, and still no child. The same with the third. All seven took their turn, but no child. Finally the wife died. When they are raised at the resurrection, whose wife is she? All seven were her husband.”

^24-27 Jesus said, “You’re way off base, and here’s why: One, you don’t know your Bibles; two, you don’t know how God works. After the dead are raised up, we’re past the marriage business. As it is with angels now, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God. And regarding the dead, whether or not they are raised, don’t you ever read the Bible? How God at the bush said to Moses, ‘I am—not was—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? The living God is God of the living, not the dead. You’re way, way off base.”

Song - Fee - Everything Falls Lyrics

You said you'd never leave or forsake me
When you said, this life is gonna shake me
And you said this world is gonna bring trouble on my soul
This I know

When everything falls apart your arms hold me together
When everything falls apart you're the only hope for this heart
When everything falls apart and my strength is gone
I find you mighty and strong, you keep holding on
You keep holding on

When I see the darkness all around me
When I see that tragedy has found me
I still believe your faithful arms will never let me go
And still I know

When everything falls apart your arms hold me together
When everything falls apart you're the only hope for this heart
When everything falls apart and my strength is gone
I find you mighty and strong, you keep holding on
You keep holding on

Sorrow will last for the night
But hope is rising with the sun, its rising with the sun
There will be storms in this life
But I know You will overcome, you have overcome

When everything falls apart your arms hold me together
When everything falls apart you're the only hope for this heart
When everything falls apart and my strength is gone
I find you mighty and strong, you keep holding on
You keep holding on

When everything falls apart your arms hold me together
When everything falls apart you're the only hope for this heart
When everything falls apart and my strength is gone
I find you mighty and strong, you keep holding on
You keep holding on