Revelation Part 9

Eternity Online: John Edmiston (Editor)



Eternity-Inspiration for Friday 24th October 1997


Revelation Part 9

(Revelation 1:7-8 NKJV) Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. {8} "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
God is in charge of Time. He is the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End. There is no point in time beyond His scope. The "I am" points to the present tense. At this very moment in time He is the Beginning. At this very moment in time He is the End. God did not say "I was the beginning and I will be the end". No, its deeper than that! He says "I AM - the beginning - now" and I AM - the end - now".

God is present and active in time. He is the God who is and who was and who is to come. I cannot say with absolute utter certainty to someone "I will be there at 3 pm tomorrow". At best that is a high probability. Life or death could intervene. I am not able to chart my own future. God can. He can say with absolute certainty what will happen when. He is the Almighty and Time is His to control.

When God enters into the circumstances of my life and the Alpha and Omega I can find new beginnings and endings appearing in my life. When I was born again He came as the Alpha of a new beginning and as the Omega of the old nature which Scripture calls "the old man". When He returns it will be the Omega of this world as we know it to be and the Alpha of a new era in God's dealings with us.

When I worship God I can know Him as He appeared to David and Moses and the apostle Paul. I can know Him as "the God who was" I can be grounded in the fact that God is consistent through history. I can also know Him as "the God who is" who intervenes now in the service in presence, prayer and praise and works in the hearts, minds and bodies of the worshippers. I can know Him and the God who is to come as I worship in hope and faith and desire a life better than that I know now with greater victory over sin and a deeper walk with God. He will do new things. he will meet me more and more until we meet face to face. He is a God who is to come.

God is the Almighty. This is basic. This is the ground of our trust. Nothing, even time, is mightier than God! Praise the Lord!

Prayer:
Teach me to see you in Time Lord both over Time and in it hours so that I may confidently live knowing You have all time under control and are absent from none of it even my darkest moments. We love You Lord and want to know that You are here and were there when things were so bad. Amen.

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