It Will End

"God can handle all things."

JESUS HAS spoken the last word. He is the beginning and the ending (Revelation 1:8). The Amen (Revelation 3:14). It will all end as He’s spoken. I was thinking on this, and it set me free from some unfinished things. Not that my mind and my everyday thinking don’t want to react still, but in my heart, knowing Jesus is the end of everything, gives me peace for the end of smaller things around me. The Scripture says He declared the end at the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). How huge in scope that is! We must refocus.

We’re picking at the crumbs dropped along the way, seeing the holes and the weeds. God’s seeing the progression, how His plan succeeds along the way. Problem is, what looks like success to us is different from His point-of-view. He saw Jesus as resurrected King of Kings thousands of years before His birth. He knew it as finished when He hung on the cross. He sees heaven on the earth and not the dead things all around us. We roll our eyes because that sounds like someone who’s “out of touch”. But there again, we’re making Him human. Jesus is human but He’s God. There’s the difference. Some have removed Him as God when He lived on this earth, but Him being God is the point. Only God could do what He did. Only God qualified as sacrifice and Victor. Either God is in control and things are going His way because He’s God or everything’s a lie. Now, which is it?

I discussed why God is in control even when He’s given man control of his own decisions. This goes to His foreknowledge. Over and over in the Word it says God knew in advance, God chose in advance. He chose people. He knew who would follow Him and who wouldn’t (Romans 8:29;1 Peter 1:2). If you want to think on a huge wrinkle, He knew Satan would sin when He created him. So why create him? That is a big question with a tiny answer. Because He’s God. And that is my point. God can handle all things. He has the broadest shoulders of all, as my mother would say. He carried the weight of the world’s sins, both those committed and those which would be committed. He lifted it off the sacrifice and buried it in the deepest sea, a figurative picture and not a literal one. In His eyes, they are forgiven. What a beautiful thing!

Why, then, do we say He’s angry? He’s perpetually angry over our mistakes and slip-ups. He’s exploding in anger in John’s Revelation. No, John’s vision of the end is one of peace. We are meant to know Him and so to know this and to roll the care of what we misunderstand, what we don’t know, onto Him (1 Peter 5:7). He holds our future. We must trust Him with it. Because all other pictures will fail. Only in Christ, in His Presence, in our relationship to God as His children and Him as our loving Father, only in God, in Jesus, will we know the Truth (John 8:32).

“You, Eternal One, are my sustenance and my life-giving cup. In that cup, You hold my future and my eternal riches.” (Psalm 16:5, VOICE)

“For God foreknew who would accept and value his methods of love, and who would reject him and his methods of love. And God predetermined that all who accept the truth about him and trust in him would be fully healed and transformed in character to be like his Son, so that Jesus would be the prototype of all who are fashioned in his likeness.” (Romans 8:29, Remedy)

“I’m talking about those who’ve been personally elected, hand-picked, summoned, called out, and chosen by the dominating prognosis of God the Father—that is, by his long-term plan that is being carried out by means of the ongoing, never-ending, sanctifying work of the Spirit that leads to a life of obedience and living in submission to Him with the goal to carry out His commands.” (1 Peter 1:2, RIV)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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