I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the ending, saith the Lord. Revelation 1:8
God Is
Always First, and God Will Surely Be Last!
In the
plan of God, man is never permitted to utter the first word nor the last. That
is the prerogative of the Deity, and one which He will never surrender to His
creatures.
Man has
no say about the time or the place of his birth; God determines that without
consulting the man himself. One day the little man finds himself in
consciousness and accepts the fact that he is. There his volitional life
begins.
Before
that he had nothing to say about anything.
After
that he struts and boasts, and encouraged by the sound of his own voice he may
declare his independence of God.
Have your
fun, little man; you are only chattering in the interim between first and last.
You had no voice at the first and you will have none at the last!
God
reserves the right to take up at the last where He began at the first, and you
are in the hands of God whether you will or not.
Adam
became a living soul but that becoming was not of his own volition. It was God
who willed it and who executed His will in making Adam a living soul. God was
there first!
And when
Adam sinned and wrecked his whole life, God was there still. Adam’s whole
future peace lay in this—that God was still there after he had sinned.
It would
be great wisdom for us to begin to live in the light of this wonderful and
terrible truth: God is the first and the last!
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