22nd Sunday after Pentecost

God’s Kingdom comes without our prayer

The Sadducees were pretending to care about God’s Law, but they didn’t

believe what God was saying or really care for that matter. They thought

their example of seven brothers marrying the same women proved their

point about the resurrection being an irrational belief. They were tracking

the numbers, and it would be silly for a wife to live with seven husbands in

eternal life. We do the same. We often add up the numbers, and it may not always seem to us that

God’s Kingdom is coming. We shouldn’t measure God’s presence among us according to

decreasing or even increasing attendance, or budgets, or the number of church committees. That’s

our work, and our work can’t make God’s kingdom come. God’s kingdom comes in spite of our

efforts, solely because God gives it, and sustains it and according to His will, grows it.