The A to Z of Your Story and Mine

In the last book of the Bible, the book of the Revelation, chapter 21 and verse 6, we read God describing Himself thus, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.” What do these words mean, and how do they apply to our lives? In order to better understand them, looking at the immediate context helps.

 

Immediately before introducing Himself as the Alpha and Omega, the Apostle John, the author of Revelation, records God as saying (Rev. 21:6), “Then He said to me, “It is done.”  Which naturally begs the question, “What is done?” The preceding chapters of Revelation tell us how the judgment of the Devil and unbelievers, the destruction of the old world, and the establishing of the new world, are all accomplished.

 

Immediately after introducing himself as the Alpha and Omega, God makes this promise (Rev. 21:6), “I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life, without cost.” In other words, in the Heaven, God will satisfy the deepest thirsts and desires of the human heart fully, and eternally. He surely satisfies our needs and desires in this world. But in Heaven, there will be no end to it. And this satisfaction is free to the one who comes, because the price has been paid for by God, in the death of His Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross. Jesus has overcome sin, Satan, and death by dying and rising again. So that now, we who are in Christ can overcome the sin that promises satisfaction but never delivers. Sin might be likened to a corrupt and crooked politician who makes promises before he or she is elected, but never delivers once put in office. God is not that way. What God promises, He most assuredly performs.

 

It is the One who pronounces “It is done,” and then promises eternal satisfaction to all who come to Him, who also describes Himself as “the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.” Why does God use Ἀ & Ὠ to describe Himself? We know that Ἀ is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and is Ὠ the last, all other letters being in between, like the letters A and Z in English. Letters are used to form words. Words are used to form sentences, and sentences to craft stories. God says here, “I am the author of history, of eternity, your destiny—the One who writes your story. As the Ἀ & Ὠ, if you trust me with your life, I will write your story perfectly, you will not be disappointed, but perfectly satisfied.”

 

With all that is going on in the world, especially in this year 2020, you and I would do well to commit, or recommit, the writing of our life story to the Ἀ & Ὠ.

If you do not know Him, today you can believe on Jesus Christ, ask for and receive the forgiveness of your sins, know God personally, and turn over the writing of your life’s story to Him. There is no Author like the Ἀ & Ὠ, who has the power and prowess to write not only your destiny and story, but to write it in such a way that it fits most meaningfully within the grand narrative of history and eternity He is writing.  

 

© Kenny Damara, 2020