Read it: Revelation 1:8; 21:6; 22:13
Live it:
If you grew up in church and are familiar with the book of Revelation, then the name Alpha and Omega is familiar. Alpha and Omega are the first and last Greek letters of that language’s alphabet. So, the meaning of course is easy to discern. God is the beginning and the ending, the first and the last, the starting and the ending of everything. The writers of the New Testament and the Early Church used this term to define God’s comprehensiveness. That is, God is not only everything, but He is before and after everything. Nothing is without God.
This term most likely arose in the Greek language to explain the Hebrew expressions of Isaiah 44:6 (“I am the first and the last”) and Psalm 90:2 (“from everlasting to everlasting you are God”). Another related concept in the concept of “truth” in Rabbinic writing is the first and last letter of the Hebrew alphabet “emet.”
Interesting facts, but so what? Let’s put this in modern terms. Our society says moral truth is relative and subjective. That truth is different for you and for me. My truth is Christian, but your truth may be something else. How can we know what is true?
Here is what makes the Christian worldview different. We do not believe that truth is relative. Instead, we believe truth starts with the One who is before “truth.” We believe the Alpha, the One who made the beginning, made truth. He is Truth! We also believe that after all this world is gone, after everyone dies and is no more, as far as this life is concerned, He will still be the Omega! He has eternity in His hands.
Let’s make this practical. If God made truth, don’t you think He wants you to know it? So ask for it. Or, are you worried about tomorrow, retirement, job, children, eternity? If God is the last, the finisher, the very end of existence, do you not think He will take care of you? What worries you today? Give it to the Alpha and Omega! What keeps you up at night? Give it to the Beginning and the Ending! For only He knows the plans that he has made for you, AND they are GOOD!
Carl