Jesus ends the controversy over the resurrection by saying God “is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” As human beings we are time bound. There is the past, the present and the future. We remember our loved ones for what we shared in the past; we mourn the loss of our loved ones in the present; we hope one day to be re-united with our loved ones in the future. That’s not how God operates. God is not bound by time. God lives in the eternal now. God does not operate as we do thinking about what was or what will be. God is, present tense. The person of faith lives in the present tense — certainly aware of the past and hopeful about the future but not controlled by them. We are confident that by living each day attentive to the presence of God all will be well.
