Good morning…
“Wow!” she texted before last night’s incredible thunder-and-lightening-fest. “Have you seen this?”
“‘Wow!’ is right,” I replied. “How can words written through a person nearly eighty years ago speak so boldly to us right now? This creative expression can only be the eternal voice of our living Lord, who was, and is, and is to come.”
“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, NIV). “Alpha (Α) and omega (Ω) are the first and last letters, respectively, of the classical (Ionic) Greek alphabet,” says Wikipedia. “This phrase is interpreted by many Christians to mean that Jesus has existed for all eternity and that God is eternal.”
Even a global pandemic (the anxiety, the fear, the panic, the shutdown, the economic turmoil) cannot thwart the desires of the everlasting Almighty:
- to bring us all together as neighbors,
- to restore the family unit,
- to bring dinner back to the kitchen table,
- to slow down our daily lives,
- to help us appreciate what really matters,
- to teach us to rely on the Lord and not on the world,
- to teach us to trust our God and not our money or material possessions.
In conclusion be strong—not in yourselves but in the Lord, in the power of his boundless resource (Ephesians 6:10, PHILLIPS).
…Sue…
P.S. Opening photo from Unsplash.com.
