I read an article in the newspaper, giving an account of  older couple who were found lying dead in the farming field. According to the news article, the couple were both very frail and interdependant to each other. Also the husband had to take care of his wife who was chronically and terminally ill. They didn’t want to cause each other to suffer and wished to remain a couple after life, so they decided to commit suicide by drinking pesticide. The couple were found hand in hand as they lied dead on the ground.

Many couples indeed enjoy and cherish their marriage lives so that they wish they could be husband and wife after they leave the world. But is it possble that we still have marriage in another world? When Jesus responded to some of the Sadducees’ question regarding resurrection and marriage, he put it clearly, “Marriage is for people here on earth. But in the age to come, those worthy of being raised from dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage” (Luke 20:34-35).

As Jesus mentioned of no more wedding or marriage in the age to come, let’s enjoy our marriage; after all, God has created one man and one woman to be united as one flesh.