​Write This Down

Revelation 21:5-8 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”  
 
FROM Heaven’s throne comes God’s authority to conclude history. “It is done.” is as sure as “Let there be light.” The Creator has spoken. The world and its events have come from God, the Alpha, and all will consummate with God, the Omega. All that has been and will be done comes under God’s good pleasure and purpose. One Word from God, completes all things.
   “Write this down.” our Lord God commanded John. He wanted the church then and now to know his ultimate plan for our salvation. Jesus’ church is always strengthened when we keep our eyes on the ultimate future God has ordained.
   It may be difficult for many of us to consider the challenges in the first-century church. Think, for example, of how people struggled to believe this new faith whose leader was crucified as a criminal. And how could there be a resurrection of a dead man from such a town as Nazareth? Jews and pagans persecuted the new church physically, economically and socially. Within the struggles, though, was God’s marvelous and profound promise that his Kingdom would reign over all the earth one day. What joy for the first Christians to know God would eternally dwell with his believers forever.  
   Circumstances remain the same today, don’t they? Christians are persecuted, martyred and belittled everywhere. Many ignore us or politely tolerate us. This is discouraging if we forget God’s promise. We must know God is still writing his story until the final day. He knows he will save his church, and so do we. We must, then, joyfully live into that living hope. We will freely drink the Living Water. Through Jesus we overcome the world to inherit the gift of eternal life. Again, God emphasizes he will be the God of all believers, and he will dwell with his children.
   From Heaven’s throne comes the Creator’s remarkable promises. God is love. His will is to dwell with his own forever. He will do it. He is Creator to make all things perfect and good for his new creation.
  
Prayer: Thank you Lord God for the great promises throughout your Scripture that point to the glorious day you come to dwell with your own. Amen.