God is willing to go to any lengths to create us as a people, sustain us in life and death, and bring us together into an eternal home. This is demonstrated in these three very different texts. Stephen, the first martyr of the church, is sustained during his execution by a revelation of the risen Jesus. We share an identity as one people though we come from many different backgrounds, an identity which God created. And the relationship we share in Jesus is for eternity. We’ll all have a room in the Household of God, an abiding place as Jesus abides in us.
