We end the scheduled reading for one year through the Bible today. How appropriate to end with some of broader themes...faith and God is the source of beginning and endings. Hebrews has an entire chapter on faith. Chapter 11 recalls many of the stories we have read. What is the connecting theme? Faith. God is also the source of beginnings and endings. Hebrews 13:8 says..."Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Revelation says Jesus is the Alpha and Omega.
I end with Hebrews description of faith..."Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for." Notice how those who lived by faith did not all see faith realized but they realized through faith the day was coming in full for God's people. Perhaps this is a vantage point for our days and times. We are to live by faith and we trust the Lord of the Alpha and the Omega. Faith is the way we participate in this amazing story of God and His reaching out in love to give hope for the world!
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