Word for the day by Christian Education Forum
I AM
"I
am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord
God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the
Almighty."( 8)
God tells us:
“You are not the main character in your story. I AM the alpha and omega, the
beginning and the end. I AM the one who is, and the one who was, and the one
who is to come. I’m the beginning, and the middle, and the end. I’m the story.
It’s about me. It’s all about me.”If God is the main character in our lives, He
will spend our lives revealing Himself. He will take our lives and reveal more
of His love, more of Himself, to us, and through us. God will shine His light
through us and we will not have to fight for our reputation. We will get to
love our neighbors as ourselves.
If God is the
main character in our lives, we will have comfort and safety, and meaning and
purpose. That comfort, not comfortable living, will be real comfort that is
filled with Hope. The kind of comfort that God talks about, that we can have in
times of suffering, even when that makes no sense. How could those of us who’ve
experienced terrible loss still know there is still something good going on?
because God gives us His comfort. He cries and He groans with us. It’s an
alongside, a holding kind of comfort.
We get safety.
Not safety like freedom from danger, like car accidents and such. There’s no
safer life than the one with Jesus at the center. Not safe as in free from
danger, but, safe as in free from the need to worry. What would that be like?
It will be free from the fear of what others think of us, free from the fear of
what our future holds, free from anything that could try to separate us from
the love of God. It’s a promise.
And purpose.
There is no greater purpose than the one Jesus is all about. It’s love. Love
for our family and our friends and co-workers. It is love for our neighbors,
for the people who we pass by at the grocery store, we drive by on the freeway,
for the people standing on the street corners holding the cardboard signs. It
is also love for our enemies. It is radical, sacrificial love, the kind that
transforms homes and neighborhoods and countries. Love is the purpose that He
wants to live for, Radical, transformative, love.
Prayer: O God, I pray that that your thoughts
would weave its way into all the details of our lives, so that our stories
would take on new meaning and new power as we are caught up in your great
story. We love you, and we say thanks for that. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Thought for the day: With God as the main character of our
lives, life isn’t easy, but we live as we were made to live, in partnership
with Him.
Mr. Wilson David, MTC, Seattle
Theme of the Week:
The authority of the Word of God