Reading
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “Who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1: 8
Reflection
Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. I suppose we might say God is the A to Z, but of course the writer of Revelation is talking about a truth much greater than alphabets. He is saying that God is the beginning and the end, the ruler of past, present and future. Everything originates in him and everything somehow will end with him. This one verse speaks a truth about God that it is difficult for us to comprehend. Before him there was nothing. In fact there was no "before him". For millions and billions and trillions of unending years God has existed and never had a beginning for he is the beginning. From everlasting to everlasting, he is God. There never was a time when he was not. It is difficult to put into words never mind understand!I find this image of the eternal nature of God both comforting and reassuring. For it reminds me that God will never abandon us, he will always be there loving us throughout life’s highs and lows. He will be there at our end just as he was there at our beginning. What an incredible God!
Prayer
We worship you eternal and everlasting God;
Alpha and Omega – the first and the last.
For you are the source of all life.
You set the world in motion, creating solar systems and planets;
You are beyond our understanding more than we can ever imagine.
Thank you for your love, the delicate wrapping in which you enfold us from our beginning to our end. Amen
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