No marriage in Heaven...

Remember most of what you read here is my opinion and therefore it may or may not hold water when an "expert" should look it over...

That said here is my opinion of why Our Lord says there will no marriage in Heaven.

This is something that has troubled me in the past, not understanding it too well. After much contemplation on the subject this is why I believe it to be so.

Jesus says no one will be given in marriage nor married in Heaven. Well, why do humans (or even animals) "marry" at all? Is it not for the sole purpose really of continuing on the human race? Or animal kindgom? Is it not God's intention that we should continue to repopulate the earth until He comes again in glory to take the "sheep" home with Him? Of course it is!

It is a "human" need to do so. This body of ours has so many needs. We must eat or die, we must sleep or not be able to function. We must work or waste away. We must socialize or become islands that are mentally well, not right. We have so many needs do we not. That is how God created us on this earth in this corporal body. When we leave this corporal world we pass into a different world. One that is totally different from here. There we have no need to continue the human race, our mission has been accomplished, we have "arrived" at our destination. We have no need for food as the new body we will have will have no need for it. Christ will sustain us. We will have no need for sleep, we will not be chained down with physical needs and wants. They simply won't exist. We will have no desire for a spouse because first God will supply any desires we have for companionshp or for anything really. Second we won't have the biological need to procreate because we will be beyond that if you will. Hence we won't feel the attraction to the opposite sex nor the biological draws that humans are endowed with here, there will be NO need, hence they will not exist. So if you have no need of physical unions for the continuation of the human race why have marriage? You won't! God is so brillant, we humans are so slow on figuring stuff out. It has taken me years, yes, years to figure this out...So don't feel bad.

Another area related is will we know our spouses? I believe of course we will. However I think our relationship to them will be altered. Let me explain. Seems to me that you will of course recognize your spouse but your committment to them will be released. Hence you can simply be you and not part of a "couple". You will shine with your heavenly blessings-the special rewards God granted to you due to what you gave to Him while on earth and your spouse will do the same but as an individual. You will have a bond of sorts it seems to me but not a "hey I'm with him/her" sort of thing. You will have a history together and feel that you will together rejoice in that but again you will not be bound together. She will go off this way and he another direction, both smiling and completely happy and yet not bound. Grateful perhaps for God's amazing design in bringing them together on earth to work as a team to further God's design and yet realizing that their mission is complete and now once more they are individuals. Does this make sense to you as it does to me? Hope so. Hope to edify and lift up, to explain not confuse and draw down.

I know there are some that will rejoice in thinking "wow free at last". Not sure thats what God intended for us but it will basically be true won't it? And yet feel that once you get to Heaven all hard feelings will be gone. Also that we will see things in a totally different perspective, God's perspective. He is the Master Weaver and works all things unto His master plan/masterpiece.

Sometimes it hits me how we have such small ideas about God. He is so much larger than life if you will...He is so capable of doing anything He pleases. We so tend to forget that. He is the Master Orchestrator, conducting so many things at the same time without missing a beat. Amazing God we have. How blessed are we to be called His Children?

On that happy note, signing off for now...

GG

8 Beatitudes

Heard the eight beatitudes sung beautifully today and it hit me how they seem to be telling us some things to expect IN Heaven...Thought I need to think about this just a little more and then post for you in hopes it will help you as it is helping me....

Just need to look at them and then post while referring directly to the exact wording...

Hope you all will enjoy this new venture into the wonders and joys that await us in Heaven!

Thanks!

GG