Today's Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 1 verse 8:
"‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
We are nearing the last days of the Liturgical Calendar and it will soon be All Hallows' Eve, followed by All Saints Day, and the Daily Office turns to the last book of the Bible as we wind down the year and make our way towards Advent.
What was begun began in God. From the foundations of the earth God was. And God is. And in whatever is waiting for us at the end of this road God will be.
Alpha and Omega.
Author and Finisher.
Do not be afraid, beloved. Do not faint from foreboding. God is, and was, and will be. So do not fear.
This is the last leg of the liturgical journey. We pass by the place of the dead come Sunday. In the following days we remember all the saints and all the souls departed. They speak to us.
And what do they say?
". . . neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
And as it was in the beginning, it shall also be in the end. Amen.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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