Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
All things have one, a start and a finish. So, where is that beginning? How do we know when we’ve reached the end?
Take life. Where does life start, and where does it end? Is our beginning at birth, when we come into this world as a baby? Is our finishing moment when we are laid in the grave?
Open the Word of God. We start with Genesis, where we read:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
We finish at Revelation, where John the Revelator tells us:
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.”
Is that truly the beginning and the end, or is there more to it than that simple explanation?
John 3:16 is an incredibly familiar verse:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Could that verse contain both the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega?
John 1:1 tells us:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Bingo! The beginning and the end all wrapped up together. The Word is Christ, and the Word was there at the very beginning of all that ever was. The Word is God, and the Word will be there at the end of all that will ever be.
That isn’t the most important revelation, though. To find that, we need to overlay John 1:1 on John 3:16:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave the WORD, that whoever believes in the WORD should not perish but have ETERNAL LIFE.”
John 3:16 is our Alpha and our Omega. It’s the birth of Christ, the place where our salvation started. The death of Christ on the cross? It was no death. It was Christ leaping forth into perfection so that we could join him in eternity. He was born in his Alpha incarnation, and he leaped into his Omega transformation straight from the cross.
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. That’s Jesus, wrapped up in John 3:16, our alpha and omega verse, the one place in the Bible that tells the beginning and the end of all that ever was and all that ever shall be.
The truth of who we are starts with Jesus, and in him, there is no end to what he wants us to be.
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