‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” vs. 8
Revelation 1:5b-8
We’re used to the language John used to describe God. After all, many of us grew up with the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, and came to love the cadence of the words in the second verse, “Which wert, and art, and evermore shall be.” There’s a poetic quality to that description of God that has stood the test of time. Granted we probably have developed a more sophisticated way to talk about God, one that takes into consideration the absolute impossibility of defining the great “I AM.” But there’s nothing that beats the simplicity of John’s description. There never was a time when God was not and there will never be a time when God will not be. God is the beginning and the end, or as John puts it, the Alpha and the Omega.
Somehow this is a comfort in the midst of the variables we face in our own quite finite existence. The way things are going some days we even question whether the earth can survive our malfeasance. We wonder what life will be like for our grandchildren – some have concluded that surely the end is near. From a human point of view things are teetering on the edge of catastrophe. But people of faith know that all things have their foundation in God, and no matter how badly we break things, goodness will always triumph.
Thought for the Day: What worries me most about the future?
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