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Alpha And Omega


I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 
                                                                                      (Revelation 22:13)
Alpha, Omega, First, Last, Beginning and End
          Have you ever been involved in something, and had someone who was there at the beginning of the project walk out? Give up? Have you ever been involved in something and had someone show up half way through and take control without having any idea what had happened before? Sometimes those departures or arrivals are for the better, but in today's passage we find Someone who started it all out, and will see it through to the end. In fact, He has seen it through to the end, because He's outside of time and we are  with Him then as now, even though our current self doesn't experience that reality yet.
         Because of recent shifts in meaning, "Alpha" tends to have a negative connotation. It's a hard-driving, ruthless, all business, control mentality. Part of that is because we've encountered alpha types who think they're God, and part of that is because we don't like the fact they're taking godhood away from us. The good news is that even though we must give up our godhood to Jesus, His Godhood isn't hard-edges and rough cut. He is not the raw material, He is the finished "product" (and always has been.) Not just the Alpha, but also the Omega.[1]


[1] I do not mean this to suggest that He has undergone a process that has changed him into something better than He started out. He always has been the finished product. The comparison is not between Jesus as Alpha and Jesus as Omega, but between human Alphas who never become Omegas, but always remain the same hard-edged and rough cut, unfinished product.

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