Let's read from Revelation 22, selected verses:12 "See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone's work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.16 "It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star." 17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let everyone who hears say, "Come." And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift..20 The one who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.
This is literally the last page of the Bible. It is amazing to me how much of page one we read on this last page. It begins and ends with the love of God desiring a relationship with you and me. It begins with a tree of life and ends with a tree of life, a symbol of life for everyone who is in that relationship with God. It has Jesus saying, "I am coming soon" with the reward set aside for those who have done my work, and I am Alpha and Omega, the A and Z of all things. Great things will be happening to those who have maintained the relationship with purity seeking to be a witness to others, and then testament to the middle of the Bible where what was said about David's root is shared again, with living waters shared with those receiving the gift. Jesus then says again, "Surely I am coming soon, 'Amen.' And John, the writer says, "Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints (believers). Amen."
On car trips when our girls were little we sang a lot and we would sing together the songs and hymns we knew and they would sing to us the new songs they had learned, and the one that always got me, first laughing and then saying, "Enough!" was the one called, "This is the song that never ends." And it is repeated enough times that between here and there you say, Please let it end now!
Not so with the relationship with Jesus. This is the one to which we say, "Lord, may it never end. I could not live without a relationship with you," and thus the purpose of this passage. The closing page of the Bible reinforces the faith we have that says God is always with us, desiring love, protecting us and walking with us until that time our walk here comes to an end and our life continues in the land where life never ends.
PRAYER: Indeed, come, Lord Jesus, today into my life and the challenges and opportunities that might come. And let your grace bless my life. Amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
