The words of committal in the old Prayer Book Funeral Service seem to sum up well our usual state of being: ‘In the midst of life we are in death’, it says, and it seems we are, each of us people who are keenly affected by loss, continually bereaved. Yet Jesus quotes the book of Exodus where God tells Moses ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ - three people who Moses understood to be dead at the time. Jesus is trying to help us to begin to understand that the power of God involves being completely and entirely alive, living without any reference to death. There is no death in God. ‘To God, all are alive’. To God, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive. What would  happen to us if only we really believed only in life? 
A talk for The Third Sunday before Advent, 6 November 2022.
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