“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” Rev. 22:13
Lord Jesus, though we don’t understand or always like your ways, choices, and timing—this we believe, rest in, and trust: You get the first and last “word” on everything. Hallelujah and make it more real to us than ever—we aren’t living between the bookends of chance and possibilities, randomness and haphazardness, “mother nature’s whims” and “fate’s fancies.” We live smack-dab between the most glorious and redemptive bookends: The bookends of the Garden of Eden and the Garden-world of the New Heaven and New Earth. Between you as the One who made all things and the One who is making all things new. Between your sovereignty and grace as “the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
Jesus, you aren’t going to show up at the end of history just to “clean up our messes,” but to usher in the magnificence of a plan made before the world began. In fact, you’re not just the First and the Last, you’re also the Middle too. On the Day of your return, you won’t have “a lot of explaining to do,” we’ll have a lot of worship to offer. And we will loudly, humbly, and fully proclaim, “Our God has done all things well!”
Jesus, until that magnificent Day: May your peace rule in our hearts. Your beauty fuel our worship. Your love shrink our fears. Your grace shape our words. Your joy supersize our strength. Your return determine our investments.
Life is so short, you are SO good, and we are so yours. The most Gospel-sane thing we can do is to invest today and the rest of our days in adoring, serving, and trusting you. So Very Amen.
