Beginning and the End

Here in Canada, students are back to school today for the beginning of another year of learning.  The end of the school year next spring seems very far away.  Today we can be grateful that we know the God of the beginning and the end who is also holding everything in between.   

I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.  Revelation 1:8

We’re so grateful God, that You are the Alpha and the Omega, the who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.  That truth puts everything else in our lives into perspective and fills our hearts with a settledness that nothing around us is doing these days.

In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end. 

Psalm 102:25-27

We’re grateful that You are there to help us transition into new beginnings, sustain us during the season of work, and help us endure to the end through whatever happens, as things surely will, during long seasons. 

For this God is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

Psalm 48:14

We want to offer ourselves, our past, our present, and our unknown future to You once again today.  All that we are, all that we long to be, all that we wonder about, we hand it over to You.  We surrender our lives into Your good care and keeping. 

Make of our lives exactly what You had in mind when You created us.  Bring about Your plan and purposes for every day of our life.  We believe we’ll not live one day too short nor one day too long when we live inside Your plan and care. 

Give us faith and trust, comfort and hope no matter what we face.  Fill us with Your love and Your grace today.  That is all we really need.  Amen

Let’s have a great day with the God who is the beginning and the end and who is with us in the in between.