Alpha and Omega: Beyond Our Timeline
The human mind struggles to grasp a God who exists beyond time. We prefer a God who reacts to our “now,” yet Revelation 1:8 calls us higher—to the absolute self-sufficiency of the Eternal One. When He declares Himself the “beginning and the ending,” He is not marking points on a timeline. He is asserting that He has no origin and no expiration. He does not “become” God as history unfolds; He is the Author who has already finished the book while we are still turning the first page. To honour Him as Alpha and Omega is to stop treating life as a series of accidents God must constantly repair. His purposes are not shaped by our circumstances; our circumstances are allowed by His purposes. As Colossians 1:17 confirms, “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” This is true authority: He is the “was” of heritage, the “is” of present struggle, and the “is to come” of eternal hope. The weight of “The Almighty” must be felt with holy fear. No power exists apart from His ...