The Amen

             “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.” (Revelation 3:14)

            And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. (Genesis 1:3-5)

            My first response to the verse from Revelation was “What am I supposed to write about that?” My second response was “Let there be…Amen.” Amen is a solemn agreement. I’ve heard it described as “So be it.” For ever “Let there be” there was an “and it was so.” For every “Let there be” there was an “Amen.” It wasn’t recorded as being said, but it was recorded as being done. And it was done by the faithful and true Witness, who is the ruler of God’s creation. So the neat thing about the verse in Revelation is that it ties to the words in Genesis not just once, but three ways in One, and is described in three ways.

            One of the ideas shared in Sunday School last week is that God is still creating. I might be off scripturally, but I can’t help thinking that “It is finished” was the Amen of the second round of creation. The third round is the Church. The fourth round will be the new Heavens and the New Earth. And each time, there’s the Amen.