The be all and end all

"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." – Revelation 1v8

One of the hardest things about faith and trusting Christ in every situation is that we can’t possibly understand ‘the way He thinks,’ if you will. We have read that His thoughts are not our thoughts and that His ways are not our ways, but we really still don’t get it because we are only capable of thinking like men (in the traditional usage of the word as meaning, ‘human.’).

The truth is that we are never going to ‘get it’ because we are not Him. There is one major thing that hinders our perception. Everything we think about is bound by time. We see everything from time’s perspective and we can’t see it all. We can’t see the next year, or even the next month, or event he next hour, minute, or second. Almost exactly two weeks ago we thought our new grandson, Hudson, was still seven or so weeks away, and yet, in a matter of a couple of hours he was here. Things change constantly and they constantly catch us off guard.

But Jesus is never caught of guard. He is the Alpha and Omega. He is the A-Z. He is the Beginning and the End. He is the One who was and is and is to come. He is the ‘I AM’. He is indeed, the be all and end all.

Our minds think inside the barrier of time. The future ahead of us is full of turns and twists. We don’t know what is around the next bend. But somehow He does. Maybe the old illustration of a canoe on a river is appropriate. We are in the canoe, not able to see what is next. Jesus is like a man on a mountain over seeing the whole river, knows the beginning and the ending. Only thing is that He sees and comprehends it all at once.

So whose vision do we trust? Do we trust our won understanding that can’t even always understand what we do see, or do we trust the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-wise, all-powerful Alpha and Omega who is the epitome of the Be All and End All?